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HISTORICAL ADDRESS 



DELIVERED AT THE 



FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION, 



June 8, 1875. 



By ALVAH HOVBY, D.D., 

President, and Professor of Theology. 



BOSTON : 

WRIGHT &. POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, 
79 Milk Street (corner of Federal). 

1875. 



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Haverhill, June 10, 1875. 
Eev. A. Hovey, D.D., Newton Centre. 

My Dear Brother : — At a meeting of the Trustees of the Newton 
Theological Institution, held on the 9th instant, it was — 

Ordered, That the thanks of this Board he presented to Eev. Dr. Hovey, 
for his ahle and interesting historical address, delivered yesterday, on the 
occasion of the semi-centennial anniversary of the foundation of Newton 
Theological Institution, and that he he respectfully requested to furnish 
a copy of the same for publication. 

Attest : GEO. W. BOSWOETH, Secretary. 



Eev. E. C. Mills, D.D., Chairman of the Executive Committee of Newton 
Theological Institution. 

Dear Brother : — In compliance with the request of the Board, I here- 
with place in your hands, for publication, the historical address delivered 
June 8, 1875, before the Trustees and Alumni of Newton Theological 
Institution. 

Very truly yours, 

ALVAH HOVEY. 



Newton Centre, June 18, 1875. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



The work of the Newton Theological Institution was begun 
on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1825, and that work 
has been continued without interruption, save by the regular 
vacations, through a period of fifty academic years. You 
must, therefore, I am sure, as Trustees and Alumni of this 
seminary, desire to review at this time the origin and progress 
of your cherished school. Why was it founded? How has 
it been sustained? What has it accomplished? And how 
may it be improved? In attempting to answer these ques- 
tions within the limits of a single discourse, I can give at 
best no more than a general, bird's-eye view of the past, 
followed by a less assured, but hopeful, glance into the 
future. 

Why was the Newton Theological Institution Founded ? 

It was founded, I answer, because wise and devout Bap- 
tists, fifty years ago, believed in a well-instructed ministry, 
and saw in such a school as this the best means for securing 
such a ministry. In other words, the founders of this semi- 
nary were intelligent, far-sighted, godly men ; they were 
convinced that theological education is very desirable for 
ministers of the gospel, and they were persuaded that such 
education can be obtained most readily in schools of sacred 
learning. My answer, therefore, divides itself into three 
distinct parts : one relating to the general character of the 
founders, and the other two to their special aims in the work 
under review. 



Q NEWT OX THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

The existence of any human institution depends on the 
existence of men who are capable of establishing it. Hence 
it may be said that this seminary was founded because there 
were men in the churches at that time whose wisdom and 
energy were equal to the task of founding it. The under- 
taking was too great for a weak faith, and too costly for a 
selfish spirit. Had we no other source of knowledge in 
respect to the persons who planted their new institution upon 
yonder hill, and who plaoned the work of instruction to be 
done by it, than the school itself as organized by them, it 
would be safe to conclude that they were men of high 
character and wide influence. But we have other, if not 
better, sources of knowledge. Their names have come down 
to us with honor. Traces of their agency may be discovered 
in the records of almost every good enterprise of their day. 
The churches confided in them as thoughtful, sagacious, and 
liberal. They were spoken of as pillars, being steadfast, 
immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. 
They were known as lovers of truth and of peace. They 
were sought for as counsellors in difficulty. They were 
friends of the poor, and zealous in giving the gospel to the 
destitute. Observe the names inserted in the charter which 
was signed by His Excellency Governor Levi Lincoln, 
February 22, 1826 : of clergymen, Joseph Grafton, Lucius 
Bolles, Daniel Sharp, Jonathan Going, Bela Jacobs, 
Ebenezer Nelson, Francis Wayland, Jr., Henry Jack- 
son ; and of laymen, Ensign Lincoln, Jonathan Bachel- 
ler, Nathaniel R. Cobb. 

Joseph Grafton (d. December 16, 1836) was, for more 
than forty-eight years, pastor of the church in whose house 
we meet to-day. Though called to the ministry without the 
advantages of liberal culture, he was distinguished among his 
brethren for good sense, knowledge of men, practical sagacity, 
and an amiable spirit, as well as for soundness of faith and 
unflagging zeal in the service of Christ. On the east side of 
his monument are engraved the words, "A memorial of 



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unsurpassed ministerial fidelity, hallowed affections, social 
virtues, and holy perseverance" ; and these words are believed 
to express, without exaggeration, the judgment of those who 
knew him best. He was a man of medium stature, having 
"a piercing black eye," and "a quick, nervous manner," 
though "he was always perfectly self-possessed." 

Lucius Bolles, D. D. (d. January 5, 1844), a graduate 
of Brown University, and a student of theology three years 
with Dr. Samuel Stillman, of Boston, was pastor of the First 
Baptist Church in Salem, Massachusetts, during the first 
twenty years of its existence, and then Corresponding Secre- 
tary of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions fourteen years. 
He was a devout Christian, a wise counsellor, an affectionate 
pastor, and a pathetic preacher ; he was tenacious of principle, 
but gentle and courteous in manner ; " he labored in season 
and out of season, not stopping to quarrel with any one " ; 
from the first he manifested a profound and lively interest in 
the cause of missions ; and he was also a generous and stead- 
fast friend of ministerial education. "He was rich in good 
works," "a lover of good men," and a " patron of everything 
that was worth patronizing in the denomination." 

Daniel Shakp, D. D. (d. June 25, 1853), was pastor of 
the Charles Street Baptist Church, Boston, more than forty 
years ; and, though almost twenty-two years have passed 
since his death, many of you can recall without effort his 
erect form and noble countenance, his personal dignity and 
natural eloquence, and will say, with Dr. Stow, "his preach- 
ing was lucid, serious, instructive, earnest"; "he was an 
enthusiastic believer in the ethics of Christianity," and 
"attached special importance to the culture of the moral 
virtues as the fruits of a genuine faith." " He was a friend of 
the rising ministry, and bestowed upon it generous atten- 
tions." He was a lover of missions, and gave time and 
thought freely to this cause. He was a man of peace and of 
truth, " inflexibly firm in all matters of principle," but " pliable 
and conciliatory in all matters of opinion." 



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Jonathan Going, D. D. (d. November 9, 1844), was a 
graduate of Brown University, and a student of theology for 
a time with President Asa Messer. He was pastor of the 
Baptist Church in Cavendish, Vermont, five years, pastor of 
the First Baptist Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, six- 
teen years, Corresponding Secretary of the Home Mission 
Society five years, and President of Granville College six 
years. The Eev. Dr. Welch testifies that he "was a large, 
well-built man, with an expression of countenance denoting 
more than common shrewdness " ; that " his judgment was 
sound, his perceptions clear, and his insight into the remoter 
relations and bearings of things somewhat remarkable " ; that 
" his uncommon discernment of men's characters and motives 
was an effectual protection against the arts of the designing " ; 
that " he was amiable and kind-hearted, and always disposed 
to confer favors whenever it was in his power " ; that " he had 
great simplicity and plainness of manuers," and was a "highly 
instructive and useful " preacher ; that he possessed " high 
executive talent, and appeared to great advantage in public 
bodies, whether as a presiding officer or as an ordinary mem- 
ber." To these words I need only add that he was a decided 
friend of this seminary, and indeed of all the general interests 
of our denomination. 

Bela Jacobs (d. May 22, 1836) entered the ministry 
without the advantages of liberal culture, and after little more 
than a year of theological study with the Rev. Mr. Williams, 
of Wrentham. Yet he labored with success in Somerset, 
Massachusetts, more than two years ; in Pawtuxet, Rhode 
Island, seven years ; in Cambridge, with the First Baptist 
Church, fifteen years ; and in East Cambridge a few months. 
Between his last two pastorates he was Secretary of the 
Massachusetts Baptist Education Society two years. He is 
described by those who knew him as a man of sound judg- 
ment and cheerful piety. He was an acceptable preacher, a 
diligent pastor, a faithful friend. That he served the First 
Baptist Church of Cambridge fifteen years is good and suffi- 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 9 

cient evidence of his worth, and that this church has, from 
the first, done so much for the Institution which he assisted 
in planting, is probably due, in some measure, to the stead- 
fast confidence which he felt in it. 

Ebenezer Nelson (d. April 6, 1852), one of the original 
trustees, was also, to the day of his death, one of the most 
earnest supporters of this Institution. He ministered accept- 
ably and usefully to the First Baptist Church in Lynn seven 
years, to the Baptist Church in West Cambridge six years, 
and to the Central Baptist Church in Middleborough fourteen 
years. At two different times he acted as agent for the 
Institution in procuring funds, and once, for two years and a 
half, he was Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts 
Baptist- Education Society. It is said of him that, " as a 
preacher, he was original and energetic in thought and man- 
ner, clear and striking in illustration, pungent and stirring 
in appeal." He was distinguished for his interest in all 
Christian enterprises, and especially in the cause of minis- 
terial education. I well recollect his presence at our anni- 
versaries, — his gray head, his marked features, his slender 
form, and his somewhat nervous manner, though twenty-four 
years have passed since he was with us. 

Francis Wayland, D.D., LL.D. (d. September 30, 1865), 
is, beyond doubt, the greatest name in the charter of this Insti- 
tution. After completing his course of study in Union College, 
and a medical course in New York, he spent one year in Ando- 
ver Theological Seminary, four years as tutor in Union Col- 
lege, four years as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Boston, 
twenty-nine years as President of Brown University, and one 
year as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Providence. His 
character and influence were so remarkable, and are so well 
remembered, that I need attempt no description of them. 
His massive form, his penetrating intellect, his resolute pur- 
pose, and his skill in teaching, were only surpassed by his 
simple faith in Christ, his profound reverence for the„Word 
of God, and his fervent zeal for the good of men. 

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10 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

Henry Jackson, D. D. (d. March 2, 1863), having com- 
pleted the regular course of study in Brown University, and 
also that of Andover Theological Seminary, was pastor of 
the First Baptist Church, Charlestown, Massachusetts, four- 
teen years ; of the North Baptist Church, Hartford, Connecti- 
cut, two years ; of the First Baptist Church, New Bedford, 
Massachusetts, seven years, and of the Central Baptist 
Church, Newport, Rhode Island, eighteen years. Many of 
you recall, without effort, his noble form, benignant counte- 
nance, affable manner, and delightful enthusiasm. He was a 
true pastor, knowing every one of his flock, and, like an 
oriental shepherd, calling each one of that flock by its own 
name. Yet his interest was not confined to those who sat 
under his ministry. He loved all men, all Christians, all 
Baptists. He rejoiced in the growth and usefulness of the 
denomination with which he was connected, without being 
uncharitable to others. I shall never forget the subscription 
to a letter which I once received from him ; namely, "As 
always I am, — Henry Jackson." Certainly, I said to myself, 
you are Henry Jackson ; and, as I recollected my last inter- 
view with him, how he grasped my hand in a neighboring 
city, and talked about Baptist history, and filled my heart 
with his own enthusiasm, I said also, that is enough; to be 
Henry Jackson is to be the friend of every youthful Christian. 
It may be added, that Dr. Jackson was a trustee of this 
Institution from the day it was founded until the day of his 
death, — thirty-eight years, — and that he gave to it, by will, 
his valuable library. 

Ensign Lincoln (d. December 2, 1832) may be con- 
sidered the connecting link between the ministers and the 
laymen named in our charter ; for during a period of not less 
than twenty-five years, he rendered service to feeble churches 
as a lay preacher, without relinquishing his business. His 
character is spoken of in terms of unqualified praise. One 
who knew him well commends " his strict integrity ; his uni- 
form piety ; his warm benevolence ; his public spirit ; his 



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unspotted life ; his seriousness, so distant from austerity ; his 
cheerfulness, so removed from levity ; his good-will to all 
men ; his delight in the saints ; his labors to build up the 
kingdom of Christ, and the blessed results of these labors." 
Another uses the following language : " Among those who 
knew him, we hazard nothing in saying, that the sun of the 
present century has not shone upon an individual who com- 
bined so many of the excellences which are requisite to com- 
pleteness of character." And I am happy to remind you that 
three sons of this Christian merchant and preacher have been 
students of the seminary which he assisted in founding, — 
Dr. T. O. Lincoln, who was graduated in 1834, and has 
been in the ministry ever since ; Dr. John L. Lincoln, who 
left at the close of his second year, in 1839, and has served 
his generation thus far with distinction as professor of the 
Latin Language in Brown University ; and Dr. Heman 
Lincoln, of this Institution, who was graduated in 1845, and, 
from that year to the present, has been in active service as 
pastor, editor, or professor. 

Jonathan Batcheller (d. April 26, 1864) was known to 
many who hear me now as a diligent, clear-sighted, trust- 
worthy man. He was more than this, — a Christian of settled 
principles and definite aims, who spent little on himself, and 
put much into the treasury of the Lord. He was a strong 
pillar of the church to which he belonged, a warm friend of 
missions, and a large contributor to the funds of this school. 
His ample forehead, clear eye, and firm mouth were expressive 
of character, intelligence, efficiency, and it is no more than 
just to affirm that he was both an honor and a support to 
every cause which he approved.* 

* " Mr. Bachellek was born in 1785, November 20 ; and died 1864, April 26. He 
went into business when he was twenty-two years old, with a capital of $200, in 
which business he was actively engaged over fifty years. He acquired, as near as I 
have been able to ascertain, about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), 
one-third of which he gave away while living; one-third he lost in his business; the 
remaining third he gave away at his decease ; maintaining through all a consistent 
Christian character."— Mrs. J. Bacheller. Written April 27, 1875. 



12 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

The list of names in our charter closes with Nathaniel R. 
Cobb (d. May 22, 1834), the name of a Christian merchant 
who will not soon be forgotten. He is said to have possessed 
unusual capacity for business , being a man of " acute pene- 
tration, rapid decision, and unconquerable perseverance." 
Yet, though prompt and energetic, he was neither fretful 
nor harsh. He was distinguished, however, not by the 
rapidity with which he accumulated property, but by the 
method with which he disbursed it. Giving entered into 
his plan of life. His alms were therefore a steady stream, 
increasing as his means increased. Soon after entering into 
business for himself, he drew up the following document : 
"By the grace of God, I will never be worth more than 
$50,000. By the grace of God, I will give one-fourth of the 
net profits of my business to charitable and religious uses. 
If I am ever worth $20,00.0, I will give one-half of my net 
profits ; and, if I am ever worth $30,000, I will give three- 
fourths ; and the whole, after $50,000. So help me God, or 
give to a more faithful steward, and set me aside. — N. R. 
Cobb." Within thirteen years, by the grace of God, he 
was enabled, under the influence of these resolutions, to give 
away more than $40,000. It is not for me to say that every 
person ought to adopt the plan of giving laid down in this 
document ; much less do I say that the ratio of what is given 
to what is gained ought in every instance to be what is here 
prescribed ; but I am fully convinced that giving liberally 
and discriminatingly should be included in every Christian's 
plan of life ; and to that extent, if no further, the example of 
this early benefactor of Xewton should be held in everlasting 
remembrance. 

Though the name of Levi Far well (d. May 2, 1844) 
does not appear in the charter of this Institution, he must be 
numbered among its founders. Appointed treasurer by the 
trustees, at the beginning, he was retained in that office till 
his death, a period of eighteen years. In further proof of 
the high estimate in which his services were held by the 



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guardians of the seminary, it may be mentioned that one of 
the public buildings has been named by them, Farwell Hall. 
It is certain that he freely gave thought, time, and money to 
promote the usefulness of the school, and was the trusted 
friend of the students, as well as of the officers. In this 
labor of love he was nobly encouraged by his benevolent 
wife, of whom it is hardly enough to say that in this, and in 
every other good work, she was "a help meet for him." 
Deacon Farwell was a dignified and courteous gentleman, 
moving with grace in the best society. For many years he 
was registrar of Harvard College. In 1833, when the Con- 
stitution of Massachusetts was so amended that, for the first 
time, "the support of ministers became wholly voluntary," 
he was representative from the town of Cambridge, having 
been elected with reference to his vote and influence in favor 
of religious equality. His death occurred the year before 
I was admitted to the Institution ; but the remembrance of 
him was fresh in the minds of many with whom I became 
acquainted, and I soon learned to think of him, and of his 
companion in life, as worthy to be named with "the excel- 
lent of the earth." 

But there is another name which you are all waiting to 
hear, — the name of Irah Chase, D.D. (d. Nov. 1, 1864), the 
first professor in this seminary. Born in Stratton, Vermont, 
he pursued his collegiate studies in Middlebury, of the same 
State, and his theological course in Anclover, Massachusetts. 
He then spent several months as a missionary in Western Vir- 
ginia, from which service he was called to assist Dr. Staugh- 
ton in a Baptist theological school, begun in Philadelphia, but 
afterwards removed to Washington, D. C, and connected with 
Columbian College . Having labored in this way seven years , he 
became satisfied at last that his cherished views of theological 
education could not be carried out in Washington; and there- 
fore, resigning his professorship, he turned his face north- 
ward. In New York he met Nathaniel E. Cobb, and, 
through his influence, was led to visit Boston, and engage 



14 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

with others in founding this school. And its character was 
determined in a great measure by him. The course of study 
and instruction was marked out by his mind and described 
by his pen. A theological school might indeed have been 
founded in the vicinity of Boston, by the Baptists of Massa- 
chusetts, if he had not been at hand to lead in the enterprise, 
but it would surely have been different in some respects from 
the one* that was founded. And it has been justly said that 
"he was the central mover in the enterprise, and around him 
the friendly elements crystallized and coalesced. The plan 
of the Institution was essentially his ; and scarcely a prin- 
cipal feature in its organization has since been changed." 
From my acquaintance with Dr. Chase, in his riper years, 
and from the testimony of those who were familiar with his 
earlier life, I infer, that whatever he set before him as an end 
to be sought, was chosen with careful deliberation, and, when 
chosen, was pursued with unwavering purpose. In the best 
sense of the expression, he was tenax propositi; and if he did 
not in every instance surmount the obstacles in his way and 
reach the end proposed, the failure cannot be ascribed to any 
weakness in his character. He was a patient student, a saga- 
cious interpreter, an exact teacher, an instructive writer, an 
honest counsellor, a conscientious, hopeful Christian, and it 
is not easy to overestimate the service which he rendered to 
biblical learning and a pure Christianity. 

By th enaction of these men, and of such as these, was New- 
ton Theological Institution founded ; and, on the day when it 
was opened, many of them met in the house of " Father 
Grafton," to invoke upon it the blessing of Almighty God. 
Now, at the end of fifty years, not one of them is with us to 
look upon the tree which God planted by their hands, and 
tell us whether its growth and fruit have fulfilled their expec- 
tation ; not one of them is here to testify of their faith and 
hope and prayer, as they committed this sapling to the care 
of Providence, to resist the storms and survive the droughts 
and gather strength and beauty from the sunshine and the 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 15 

rain of half a century, and then, with a larger and a deeper 
life, to pass on into the future. 

This Institution was founded by the men of whom I have 
spoken, because they believed in an educated ministry. 
That is to say, they were convinced that both collegiate 
and theological studies are useful as a preparation for the 
sacred office. The only confirmation which this remark 
needs, is furnished by the course of instruction prescribed 
for the seminary, — a course which was from the first adapted 
to graduates from college, though other pious men, who 
could pursue the same course with graduates, were made 
welcome to the school. A guarded and just expression of 
their opinion is probably contained in the Eleventh Annual 
Report of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts 
Baptist Education Society, September, 1825. In that re- 
port, which contains a narrative of the first steps toward 
the founding of this Institution, I find these words: "It is 
matter of rejoicing that the popular sentiment in our churches 
now very generally harmonizes with the objects of this soci- 
ety. Much of that indifference and opposition which was 
felt in some minds to the cause of education, there is reason 
to believe, has subsided. The churches hold, as firmly as 
ever, the sentiment, that no irreligious man, however learned, 
should be encouraged as a preacher of the gospel ; that those 
whom God designs for the sacred office of the ministry, he 
designates by a special internal call ; these sentiments, it is 
ardently hoped, will ever be held by the churches dearer 
than life. But, in general, they now esteem learning a very 
important qualification for him whose business it is rightly to 
divide the word of truth, and to feed the churches with 
knowledge and understanding." These discriminating sen- 
tences represent correctly the position which intelligent Bap- 
tists have always held in regard to ministerial education. 
They have been more than friendly to sound learning, but 
they have known how to distinguish between education as a 
substitute for grace and education as a servant of grace. 



16 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

Thus, at the first general meeting of the Particular Baptists 
of England, in 1689, measures were taken to raise a fund for 
the purpose, among other things, of " assisting members that 
are disposed for study, have an inviting gift, and are sound 
in fundamentals, in attaining to the knowledge and under- 
standing of the languages, — Latin, Greek and Hebrew." 
Three years later a similar meeting reports that several "pious 
and hopeful young men have been assisted in their acquire- 
ment of learning," by the fund, and the churches are " pressed 
to make further progress therein ; and the rather, because 
several of our fellow-christians, who after us fall into this 
method, have far exceeded us." From that time to the 
present, English Baptists have testified with more or less 
unanimity and self-sacrifice their desire for an educated min- 
istry. And some of them, as Thomas Hollis, have rendered 
noble service to the same cause on this side the Atlantic. 

Early in its history, the Philadelphia Baptist Association 
began to manifest an interest in the education of "young per- 
sons hopeful for the ministry and inclinable to learning." To 
the influence of this Association were due in a great measure 
the founding of Rhode Island College, in 1764, and the origin 
of the Warren Association, in 1767. A few years later the 
pecuniary wants of the college in Providence were repre- 
sented to the Warren Association, and its members, " from an 
idea of the great importance of good education," recom- 
mended " a subscription throughout all the Baptist societies 
on this continent," to increase the funds of the College. 
Finally, in 1791, this body adopted unanimously " a plan for 
establishing a fund for the purpose of assisting with a col- 
legiate education, such young men of the Baptist denomina- 
tion as may appear to be suitably qualified for the ministry." 
In 1814, the Massachusetts Baptist Education Society was 
formed, a society which, with a slight change in name, has 
continued its beneficent ministry down to the present hour. 

From this imperfect sketch, it appears that the importance 
which the founders of Newton Theological Institution attached 



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to the education of pious men for the ministry, was in har- 
mony with the history and traditions of our people. Yet 
there were some in the churches who took a different view of 
the case, and were inclined to say : "Knowledge puffeth up, 
even when it is joined with love, and learning is vain, even 
when it is seasoned with grace. Ministers should labor with 
their hands, as did Paul, and give the gospel to men without 
price. Were they to do this, the Lord would see to it that 
they did not lack words when speaking for him." Some 
there were in the churches, fifty years ago, who spoke after 
this manner, but how numerous they were, I am unable to 
conjecture. Indeed, there have been those among us, in 
every period of our history, who have been indifferent or 
unfriendly to ministerial education. Isaac Backus refers to 
the influence of such Baptists in his day, and the English 
Baptist convention was compelled to say, in 1693, only five 
years after it had started a fund for the assistance of young 
men in study, that "against this [fund] a mighty wind hath 
been raised, both in this city [London] and all the churches 
of our way in the nation, as if from hence would follow a neg- 
lect of gifts already in the churches." Had the connection of 
the English universities with the Established Church, and 
the notoriously unspiritual lives of many clergymen of that 
church, led a large part of the unlettered Baptists to look upon 
learning with distrust or aversion, it would not have been 
surprising. Nor would it have been at all strange if similar 
causes had produced similar effects upon the Baptists of 
America. To what extent this was really the case cannot 
easily be learned. But I find no evidence that the leading 
spirits of our denomination have ever despised literary or 
theological culture. On the contrary, they have steadfastly 
affirmed the importance of sound learning, and especially of 
biblical learning, to ministers of Christ. And in this respect, 
the founders of Newton are entitled to rank with the wise 
and good of earlier days. 

Again, the founders of this Institution saw in a. theological, 

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18 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

seminary the best means of securing a well-instructed minis- 
try. Other means had been tried with partial success, but 
had proved in the end unsatisfactory. In many instances, 
young men had pursued their studies in divinity with pastors, 
and had derived great benefit from the connection. But the 
pastors who were best fitted by knowledge and character to 
instruct men in theology, were often serviug large churches 
that needed all their strength. Moreover, the domain of 
Christian truth was found to be so wide and diversified, that 
no one man, though endowed with the greatest intellect, edu- 
cated in the best manner, and burdened with the least pas- 
toral care, could be expected to prove a competent guide 
through every part of that domain. No one man could be 
familiar with every high mountain and shaded valley and 
tangled forest, with every frowning crag and fearful gorge 
and sunny dell, with every hidden spring and laughing stream 
and rushing waterfall, with every vein of gold and silver and 
iron, every oak and cedar and palm, every shrub and flower 
and root, with all the sky above, the air around, and the 
fruitful soil beneath. Yet, it was felt, and justly felt, that if 
candidates for the ministry needed any guidance in exploring 
the realm of Christian truth, they were entitled to the very 
best attainable. If men who were soon to stand as watchmen 
upon the walls of Zion, or to lead the sacred host on the high 
places of the field, could be benefited by any human instruc- 
tion, they should have the most accurate and trustworthy 
possible. This at least was the opinion of the Rev. Henry 
Jackson and the Rev. James D. Kxowles, who, by direction 
of the trustees, addressed the churches of our faith in behalf 
of this Institution, at the close of its first year, in the follow- 
ing language : " The committee deem it unnecessary to reca- 
pitulate and justify the motives which led to the establish- 
ment of this seminary ; the principle, that the ministers of 
the gospel ought to receive as thorough an education as pos- 
sible, is now settled; and the person who questions it, has 
fallen behind the age." And the founders of this seminary 



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were persuaded that such an education, "as thorough as pos- 
sible," could be gained more rapidly and surely in a school of 
sacred learning, than in any other place. From a circular 
published in June, 1826, by Levi Farwell and Nathaniel 
K. Cobb, we learn that " the origin of the Newton Theological 
Institution may be dated from a numerous meeting of minis- 
ters and private brethren, from various parts of New Eng- 
land, held in May, 1825, at the vestry of the First Baptist 
Church in this city [Boston] . It was then resolved that the 
necessities of our denomination imperiously require the estab- 
lishment of a theological institution in the vicinity of Boston, 
and the gentlemen present pledged themselves to use every 
suitable exertion towards the promotion of such an object. 
Brethren from all parts of the State addressed the meeting, 
and each one seemed most deeply impressed with the impor- 
tance of such an institution to the interests of piety among 
our churches." With this account may be joined the state- 
ment of -the executive committee of the Massachusetts Bap- 
tist Education Society in its Eleventh Annual Keport: "In 
compliance with the recommendation of a large meeting of 
ministers and other brethren convened in Boston, May 25, 
1825, your committee have taken into consideration the 
establishment of a theological seminary in the vicinity of 
Boston. This measure has for many years been in contem- 
plation. Your committee are now convinced that the time 
has arrived to build this part of the Lord's house. Although 
attempts have been made to establish theological departments 
in connection with two of our colleges [at Washington, D. C, 
and at Water v ill e, Maine], and some success has attended 
them, yet your committee are of opinion that a theological 
institution established by itself alone, where the combined 
powers of two or three or more men of experience, and men 
of God, can be employed in instructing and forming the 
manners and habits and character of pious young men for 
the work of the ministry, is greatly to be preferred." 

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20 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

men hoped to realize in the school which they were founding, 
I must add an extract from a statement of the executive 
committee of the Massachusetts Baptist Education Society, 
dated Boston, November 9, 1825 : "The Institution is to be 
open for the admission of those persons only who give evi- 
dence of their possessing genuine piety, with suitable gifts and 
attainments, and of their being influenced by proper motives 
in wishing to pursue theological studies, and who, moreover, 
present certificates from the churches of which they are mem- 
bers, approving of their devoting themselves to the work of 
the ministry. 

"The regular course is to occupy three years, and embrace 
the Hebrew language and antiquities, with the Chaldee and 
Greek of the Scriptures, Ecclesiastical History, Biblical The- 
ology, Pastoral Duties, and, in short, the various studies and 
exercises appropriate to a theological institution designed to 
assist those who would understand the Bible clearly, and, as 
faithful ministers of Christ, inculcate its divine lessons the 
most usefully. 

" To the department of Ecclesiastical History, will be re- 
ferred instruction on the evidences of the Christian religion ; 
on the formation, preservation, transmission, and canonical 
authority of the sacred volume ; on the history, character, 
influence, and uses of the ancient versions and manuscripts of 
the Old Testament and of the New ; on modern translations, 
especially on the history of our common English version ; on 
the principal editions of the original Scriptures ; on the an- 
cient and the subsequent history of the Hebrews, and, as far 
as may be requisite, of the nations with whose history that of 
the Hebrews is connected; on the history of Christianity, 
and the various opinions and practices which, under its name, 
have been supported, with the causes and the consequences ; 
on the attempts at reformation ; and on the present state as 
well as the origin of the different denominations of professed 
Christians, and of unbelievers, and the unevangelized through- 
out the world- 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 21 

w To the sphere of Biblical Theology it will belong to aid the 
students in acquiring a knowledge of the sacred Scriptures 
in the original languages, as well as in the English ; to guide 
them to correct principles of interpretation, and habituate 
them to employ, in seeking to understand the various parts 
of the Bible, all those helps which may be derived from the 
different branches of biblical literature ; to analyze, and lead 
the students to analyze, in the original, the most important 
portions of the Old Testament, and the whole, if possible, of 
the New, exhibiting the scope of the respective parts, and 
whatever of doctrinal or of practical import they may con- 
tain, and showing hoiv they are applicable at the present day, 
and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for in- 
struction in righteousness ; and having thus surveyed the rich 
field of Scripture, and viewed the products as scattered pro- 
fusely on every side by the bounteous hand of God, the pro- 
fessor is, for the sake of convenient reference, to classify and 
arrange the particulars, and, for this purpose, to bring the 
students to the examination of a series of theological subjects, 
in such a manner as most to awaken the efforts of the genuine 
disciple of Christ, and lead him to search the Scriptures. 

"Under the head of Pastoral Duties, it will be required to 
give instruction in the nature, objects, difficulties, responsi- 
bilities, and supports of the pastoral office ; on the great ivork 
of preaching the gospel ; on the various ways and occasions 
of promoting the welfare of a church, and commending the 
gospel to the consciences of men by private labors as well as 
by public preaching, exhortation, and prayer ; on the dangers 
of the preacher, and the appropriate guards ; on his visits to 
persons in health and in sickness, and in other affliction ; and 
on administering consolation or reproof or instruction or 
entreaty, as different individuals may need, and as becomes 
one who is to watch for souls as they that must give account." 

.This description, which bears internal evidence of having 
emanated from the mind and heart of Dr. Chase, establishes 
three points ; namely, first, that students for the ministry 



22 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

were believed, by the founders of this Institution, to need a 
course of instruction more thorough and extended than could 
be given by any pastor, for no one can read this prospectus 
of study without recognizing the importance of nearly every 
part of it, and, at the same time, the vast amount of investi- 
gation presupposed by it ; second, that the course of study 
marked out by. this prospectus was preeminently biblical, 
comprising the history, the criticism, the interpretation, the 
analysis, the application, and the influence of the sacred Scrip- 
tures, together with suitable training for the work of preach- 
ing and pastoral duty, but assigning a very subordinate place 
to systematic theology, and avoiding the expression altogether ; 
and third, that had the founders of this seminary been willing, 
as we know they were not, to see their younger brethren, 
who were looking forward to the ministry, dependent for 
their theological education upon schools supported and con- 
trolled by other churches, yet none of those schools furnished 
a course of instruction which was thought to be in all respects 
adapted to the wants of our ministry. Nor was there in the 
whole country a Baptist theological seminary of the grade 
contemplated by the founders of Newton. Hence they 
looked upon the planting of this Institution as a duty which 
they owed to Christ and his truth, and believed that the time 
to build this part of the Lord's house had fully come. Look- 
ing back over the history of fifty years, it is difficult for us to 
think they were mistaken. 

The second question proposed in the opening of this dis- 
course ; viz., — 

How has the Newton Theological Institution been 

Sustained ? 
may be answered by referring you to the care of its guardians, 
the liberality of its friends, and the work of its professors. 

No one can study, as I have done, the Eecords of the 
Trustees, and observe the number of meetings which they 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 23 

have held, the variety of subjects which they have considered, 
the special reports which they have received, the difficulties, 
perplexities, discouragements which they have encountered, 
without being convinced that some of them have rendered a 
great amount of service to their beloved school. To devise 
ways and means for the financial support of a growing semi- 
nary is no light task ; for, as soon as one want is met, another 
appears. Yet every good school is a growing school ; it has 
a " springing and germinant " life ; it enjoys a kind of per- 
petual youth ; and should it cease to grow, it would straight- 
way begin to die. Nor is it an easy thing to make choice of 
suitable men for the work of instruction, especially when it is 
important to give every teacher a high degree of separate 
responsibility, and, at the same time, to preserve unity of 
aim and action in the whole force. Yet this separate responsi- 
bility, and this unity of aim, are both indispensable to the best 
theological training, and on this account are to be sought 
faithfully, even though they be never found in perfection on 
the shores of time. It may therefore be seen at a glance that 
the duty of the trustees must have been oftentimes grave and 
perplexing. To make every dollar contributed go as far as 
possible in support of the school, and then to perceive that 
half its wants were unmet, was the service to which they were 
called, and the service, I may truly add, to which they 
addressed themselves with Christian fidelity and patience. 
With few, if any, exceptions, the trustees of this Institution 
have been its wise and stanch friends, ready to give any 
reasonable amount of care and thought to its improvement. 

To illustrate this statement, I will trace very briefly their 
action during two critical periods ; but my sketch will be of 
little value to any who are themselves strangers to the anxiety 
and care inseparable from this kind of service. 

The charter of Newton Theological Institution was accepted 
by the Trustees March 13, 1826, and the Eev. Irah Chase 
duly elected Professor of Biblical Theology. At the same 
meeting, a Committee on Finance, composed of five mem- 



24 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

bers, was appointed. But at the next meeting, held May 30, 
1826, a committee of two was substituted for the larger one ; 
and in June, 1826, Levi Farwell and Nathaniel R. Cobb, 
this committee, issued a circular, explaining the origin of the 
Institution, the aim of its founders, and the need of pecuniary 
aid. In it they say that more than $3,000 are necessary to 
meet existing demands on the treasury, and add, that " the 
trustees do not contemplate, at present, a seminary which 
shall need more than two instructors. They do not consider 
a large theological institution desirable. But they believe that 
two professors will be necessary as soon as their funds will 
justify their appointment." Yet if the course of instruction 
adopted by the trustees was to be carried out, a second profess- 
or was indispensable, and, therefore, at the following meeting, 
September 14, 1826, the Rev. Henry J. Ripley was elected 
Professor of Biblical Literature and Pastoral Duties, the 
Massachusetts Baptist Education Society being respectfully 
solicited to aid in his support. The Rev. B. C. Grafton, of 
Plymouth, was, at the same time, appointed agent to obtain 
funds for the professorship of Biblical Theology, and Rev. 
Henry Jackson and Rev. James D. Knowles were directed 
to prepare an appeal to the churches for subscriptions in sup- 
port of the school. This appeal was dated October 10, 1826, 
and published in the "Baptist Magazine." 

On the 13th of September, 1827, the balance due to the 
treasurer for money advanced by him was $494.54, and a 
petition was received by the trustees at the same time, asking 
for the addition of an English and preparatory department, 
which soon went into operation. At a meeting held April 16, 
]828, the secretary of the Board was instructed to send a 
circular to benevolent individuals, asking them to assist the 
Institution in its need. On the 11th of March, 1829, between 
$5,000 and $6,000 were reported due to the treasurer, and 
Professor Ripley was requested to act as ngent during his 
next vacation. Rev. Daniel Sharp and Rev. Bela Jacobs 
were also asked to serve the cause in the same way for a few 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 25 

weeks, the professors supplying their pulpits meanwhile. In 
April, a month later, the treasurer was authorized to borrow 
$5,000, and, in September, the Massachusetts Baptist Educa- 
tion Society was requested to assume the support of Professor 
Ripley. At the meeting which was held April 21, 1830, 
Rev. E. Nelson was appointed agent to provide for the 
professors' salaries by procuring subscriptions for the annual 
payment of $50 for five years ; and on the 9th of September, 
1830, it was announced that sixteen shares, enough to sup- 
port one professor, had been obtained. To accomplish this 
result, Rev. Bela Jacobs had also given several weeks to the 
matter. But the plan appears to have been inadequate to 
meet the wants of the school, and therefore another, contem- 
plating a longer period, was adopted. It was proposed to 
raise a sinking fund of $20,000, to support two professors 
twenty years. A commendatory notice of it was inserted in 
the February number of the "Baptist Magazine," in which it 
was hopefully said, "This method was chosen, we are told, 
instead of a permanent endowment, because it was the only 
plan which seemed practicable. We are by no means certain, 
however, that the mother of invention has not, in this case, 
marked for those who wish to honor the Lord with their sub- 
stance, a very promising means of doing good." On the 13th 
of April, 1832, the trustees were informed that the whole 
sum of $20,000 had been subscribed. But they received from 
Professor Ripley, at the same session, a request for the 
appointment of a third professor, and, coming from such a 
source, we may be certain that it was both well considered 
and reasonable. At their next meeting, September 13, 1832, 
the Rev. James D. Knowles was elected Professor of 
Pastoral Duties, that Professor Ripley might give his whole 
strength to the single but great department of Biblical 
Literature. Thus the struggle between the growing wants 
of the seminary and the inadequate resources of the Board 
went on from year to year, and from lustrum to lustrum. 
Plan followed plan ; expedient succeeded expedient ; the 



26 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

cloth was not enough for the garment. For a short time the 
Institution was free from debt, but soon its property must be 
mortgaged, or its work cease. There were years when 
some of its friends despaired of saving it from extinction, — a 
doom which had befallen many similar schools,— and, as is 
often the case, the deepest night just preceded the fairest 
dawn. It will not harm us to look for a moment at the diffi- 
culties which were met in a second period worthy of notice. 

On the 4th of April, 1848, Kev. T. F. Caldicott was 
appointed financial agent to raise the sum of $30,000, but his 
efforts to accomplish this task were unsuccessful. Somewhat 
more than a year later (August 22, 1849), the treasurer was 
authorized to sell all the Institution lands in Newton, except 
the original Peck estate, for the purpose of removing a mort- 
gage of $10,000 on the property, and soon after (October 3, 
1849), he was authorized to sell ten shares of stock in the 
Western Railroad, to meet the liabilities of the treasury. 
On the 28th of August, 1850, Professor R. E. Pattison, 
D. D., was appointed financial agent; and on the 26th of 
February, 1851, the Rev. E. Nelson was called to the same 
service, Dr. Pattison having been unable to obtain the pro- 
posed $30,000. But the efforts of Mr. Nelson were also 
unavailing. The sum proposed was too small to inspire con- 
fidence. Those who loved the Institution were satisfied that 
it would afford no permanent relief, and therefore, on the 14th 
of April, 1851, the Rev. J. W. Parker, D. D., was invited to 
raise $50,000. Dr. Parker was one of the few whose faith 
never faltered ; but, in this instance, he labored with only 
partial success. It was clearly seen that $50,000 was not 
enough to place the senfinary out of danger. Hence the Rev. 
Horace T. Love was chosen financial agent, February 23, 
1852, and, on the 15th of March, it was voted to raise 
$100,000. And at that very meeting — a circumstance worthy 
of distinct notice — $35,000, out of the proposed $100,000, was 
subscribed by the trustees present. This augured well for 
the enterprise, and, as you all know, the effort made was not 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 27 

in vain. From that hour the cloud which had hung over the 
Institution began to break and disappear. 

I will improve the figure : at that hour the sun rose in a 
clear sky, but passed quickly behind a cloud. For it had 
been supposed that the $100,000 just subscribed would be 
all invested, and the income of it meet the wants of the Insti- 
tution for a generation to come ; but so heavy was the debt 
already pressing upon it, and so urgent was the need of 
increased expenditure, that some part of the new fund was 
borrowed for the present necessity. Then came disappoint- 
ment and dissatisfaction, encroachment on the original estate 
by sale of land at auction, and retrenchment in expenditure 
by diminishing the corps of instructors. The money borrowed 
from the fund was paid, but it soon appeared that the interest 
of $100,000 would not support a first-class seminary. The 
foe which, it was fondly thought, had been vanquished, was 
still in the field, and was preparing to come upon them 
again, "like an armed man." But they naturally dreaded the 
encounter, and more than ten years were passed in feints and 
skirmishes and guerilla warfare, before the trustees and 
friends renewed the battle in earnest. At last, on the 3d of 
December, 1867, it was voted that an "additional endowment 
of $150,000 ought to be raised at an early day." Dr. Ander- 
son was expected to solicit subscriptions ; but his health 
failed, and he visited Europe. In the summer of 1869, 1 was 
requested to try my hand at the same task; but my own 
unskilfulness, together with my duties in the seminary, pre- 
vented success, and, on the 27th of December, Eev. W. H. 
Eaton, D.D., was appointed agent to raise money for the 
additional endowment. By his quiet, patient, and well- 
directed efforts, complemented, at the last, by the powerful 
exertions of a few distinguished brethren, the sum of $200,000, 
which had finally been agreed upon, was raised by subscrip- 
tion, and in amounts varying from $1 to $18,000. This was 
a great and wise contribution to the cause of sacred learning, 
and those who shared in it were entitled to rejoice at the 



28 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL IXSTITUTION. 

auspicious result. Among the brethren who did most to 
insure the final success of this effort, may be named, besides 
the president of the Board, the Hon. J. Warren Merrill, 
a Christian gentleman of whom it would be difficult to speak 
in terms of admiration too positive or high. His keenness of 
perception and clearness of judgment are turned to the best 
account in practical life by strength of purpose, eloquence of 
speech, and promptness of action. Long may his presence 
grace the councils of our Board ! * And with him, I cannot 
deny myself the pleasure of naming Hezekiah S. Chase, who 
has no superiors, and few equals, in sympathy, hopefulness, 
liberality, and enterprise for the good of man. I need not 
invoke upon him the blessing of perpetual youth, since he 
appears to enjoy it already. 

Under the direction of the trustees, the buildings of the 
Institution have been repaired and improved from time to 
time. Farwell Hall has been built, at a cost of about $10,000, 
and repaired, at a cost of about $12,000, Colby Hall and 
Sturtevant Hall have been added, at an expense of about 
$40,000 each. 

But while it is true that nearly all the guardians of this 
Institution have been its wise and earnest friends, there have 
always been a few on whose shoulders the burden has rested 
with peculiar weight. And so it is with every similar body. 
For there are men who seem to be leaders and burden-bearers 
by divine vocation ; men whose vision is clear, whose purpose 
is strong, whose benevolence is large, and whose action is 
prompt. To these, others will look for impulse and direction, 
and to these, far more than is sometimes thought, must be 
ascribed the success of every great enterprise, and, indeed, 
the whole progress of mankind. It has been the good fortune 
of Newton Theological Institution to have had men of this 
class in its Board of Trustees from the first. Of the dead, I 
may speak freely ; but of the living, with some reserve. 

To the class described may be justly reckoned the five 

* See Note C. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 29 

presidents of the Board; viz., Rev. Joseph Grafton, from 
1826 to 1835; Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D., from 1835 to 
1853; Rev. Alexis Caswell, D. D., from 1853 to 1854; 
Rev. Baron Stow, D. D., from 1854 to 1869 ; and Gardner 
Colby, Esq., from 1870 to the present time. 

Of Father Grafton and Dr. Sharp I have already spoken. 
They were worthy of the distinction conferred on them by the 
trustees, and may be said to have honored the office as much 
as the office honored them. 

Dr. Caswell was president but one year, though he was 
unanimously reelected to the office ; and has since, as he had 
before, manifested a very intelligent and hearty interest in 
the seminary. More than once, as you well recollect, has he 
taken occasion to commend the school as one that honors the 
Word of God, by giving it a leading place in its course of 
instruction. The Nestor of Baptist scholars, his memory 
embraces the entire history of this sacred school, and peoples 
the silent years of the past with friends and voices and deeds 
that were, but are not. Long may his benignant presence 
grace our anniversaries, and the autumnal ripeness of his 
wisdom temper our youthful zeal ! 

Baron Stow, D.D. (d. Dec. 27, 1869), a graduate of 
Columbian College, and then for a short time editor of the 
"Columbian Star," was afterwards pastor of the Baptist 
Church in Portsmouth, N. H., five years, of the Baldwin 
Place Church in Boston fifteen years, and of the Rowe Street 
Church, in the same city, nineteen years. He was a trustee 
of this Institution thirty-four years, and president of the 
Board the last fifteen years of his life. It has been said that 
he was "eminent as a Christian, a philanthropist, and a 
preacher " ; that " to every post of duty and labor he brought 
a sound judgment, an earnest purpose, a prayerful and con- 
ciliatory spirit" ; that he was highly valued for his .substantial 
worth, and greatly loved for his uniform courtesy and kind- 
ness"; that "he always avoided strife and bitterness," but 
"was extremely sensitive, and could never enjoy, in a high 



30 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

degree, the society of minds cast in a different mould." My 
own impression of Dr. Stow was this : that in him quick 
perception, keen sensibility, and ready command of language 
were united with a good understanding and a sanctified will. 
To his work as a pastor he cheerfully added a large amount 
of service to the cause of foreign missions and the cause of 
ministerial education. 

To Gardner Colby, Esq., now president of the Board, I 
shall have occasion to refer in another connection, and I will 
therefore only say that he has discharged the duties of his 
office with admirable dignity and despatch. 

But if the presidents of the Board have belonged to the 
class of leaders and burden-bearers in sustaining the Institu- 
tion, so likewise have the treasurers, the secretaries, and, in 
general, the members of the executive committee. If time 
permitted, I would gladly mention them all by name, and 
give some account of their silent work. But I can speak of 
no more than two or three. 

Of the strictly financial ability of Hon. Levi Farwell, 
the first treasurer, I am unable to form any clear judgment ; 
whether he was too indulgent to the poor students and to the 
hardly-pressed subscribers, I cannot say; but of his perfect 
integrity, his paternal affection for the seminary, and his 
cheerful devotion of time, thought, and care to its support, I 
am well assured. " Many a time," says Dr. Stow, " he stood 
under heavy burdens, sometimes bending, occasionally well- 
nigh disheartened, yet giving money with a liberal hand, and 
personal service to an extent little known and imperfectly 
appreciated." He was treasurer eighteen years. 

The Institution was not called to mourn the loss of its 
second treasurer, Gardner Colby, for twenty-four years ; 
and when he ceased from his labors in that sphere, it was but 
to enter, after a brief respite, upon others in a more conspic- 
uous station. It has been stated by high authority that the 
finances of the school were managed by him with extraordi- 
nary skill during almost a quarter of a century. Not a penny 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 31 

was either lost or wasted. Vigilance, promptness, personal 
supervision, were everywhere manifest. The lands, build- 
ings, investments, students, and even the professors, seemed 
to be under the treasurer's eye from September till June. 
With inexhaustible vigor and hope he sustained the burden 
which was laid upon him, and secretly rejoiced, I doubt not, 
in the opportunity of expending a part of his superfluous 
energy for so good a cause. To serve a good cause is indeed 
the highest glory of man ; and to serve such a cause with 
unconquerable purpose and inward assurance of success, has 
been the rare privilege of our brother, now president of the 
trustees. The treasury was strengthened by his administra- 
tion, and we are indebted, under God, to him, with a few 
others, for the preservation of our cherished school in the 
darkest hour of its financial history. 

Thomas Nickerson, Esq., has proved himself a worthy 
successor of Gardner Colby, carefully and gratuitously 
attending to the duties of his office, and guarding with con- 
scientious strictness the fiscal integrity of the Institution. 
Though declining from the first the responsibility of looking 
after the buildings and grounds, and restricting himself more 
closely to the care of the treasury, his services have been 
sufficiently arduous, and have been gratefully appreciated by 
the Board. 

It is quite impossible for me to speak in particular of all 
the trustees who have been in a marked degree loyal and 
useful to the Institution ; but one other name must be men- 
tioned here ; to wit, the name of Rev. Ebenezer Thresher, 
of Dayton, Ohio. For, according to the records of the 
Board and the traditions of the students, he was a wise and 
tireless friend of Newton. Through many years, he was on 
almost every committee which had work to do, and it is not 
too much to affirm, that, for wisdom in council and energy in 
action, he had then no superior. And when he removed to 
the great West, he did not lose his interest in education, or 
in this seminary, though, as was natural, he directed his 



32 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

attention, for the most part, to the Baptist college of his 
adopted State. 

Having referred to the care of the trustees in answer to the 
question, "How has the Newton Theological Institution been 
sustained?" I must also speak of the liberality of its friends 
in the same connection. Of the founders of Newton, there 
were three men who distinguished themselves by munificent 
contributions for its support. You anticipate their names, — 
Nathaniel K. Cobb, Levi Farwell, and Jonathan Bach- 
eller. They are said to have given in the aggregate, dur- 
ing life and at death, $57,150, or a little more than $19,000 
each. Three others, Michael Shepard, Elijah Corey, 
and Nicholas Brown, gave, in nearly equal sums, $19,961. 
These gifts were made when the wealth of our denomination 
was small, and the givers might well be called munificent 
friends of learning. Yet I am not prepared to affirm that 
our brethren of former days were more liberal in the use of 
their money, for benevolent purposes, than are those of the 
present time. For when I consider what has been given to 
this Institution by Gardner Colby, J. Warren Merrill, 
B. F. Sturtevant, Geo. S. Dexter, Sam'l C. Davis, Law- 
rence Barnes, Thomas Nickerson, H. S. Chase, Geobge 
Cummings, Isaac Davis, Lewis Colby, J. H. Walker, 
E. O. Fuller, Geo. Lawton, Alva Woods, O. H. Green- 
leaf, Geo. D. Edmands, Gardner E. Colby, Jas. Upton, 
Thomas Griggs, J. W. Converse, the brothers Pevear, 
Alfred Peabody, Geo. L. Johnson, Chas. S. Kendall, 
Mrs. A. E. Waters, and many others, both ministers and 
laymen, in sums quite as large in proportion to their ability, 
as have been contributed by the persons whose names I have 
read, it is impossible to doubt the grace of God to men of 
our own day, or to hesitate in believing that they have rarely 
been surpassed in the virtue of giving. In saying this, I 
take into account the circumstance, that, while they have 
remembered Newton, they have been no less liberal to other 
objects. Brown and Colby and Worcester have been largely 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 33 

assisted by some of them, while the cause of missions at 
home and abroad has felt the quickening impulse of their 
charity. Nor could it, in the nature of the case, be other- 
wise. For, when the Lord opens the heart of any person, 
whether rich or poor, so that he feels a genuine interest in 
the welfare of his kind, and hopes to serve his generation 
usefully, he will be sure to find many causes worthy of his 
support, and may, perchance, discover at last that all good 
enterprises are one in their ultimate tendency. 

It would be interesting to know the number of contributors 
to the funds of Newton, but I presume there are no means in 
existence for ascertaining that number with any considerable 
degree of accuracy. Yet I observe that for the $100,000 
endowment, completed July 1, 1853, about four hundred 
names, besides those of three churches and one benevolent 
society, are reported ; while for the additional endowment of 
$200,000, completed March 31, 1871, about three hundred 
and thirty names, besides those of three churches, are re- 
ported. Sixty-three persons contributed the money for the 
erection of Colby Hall, the smallest sum given being $5, and 
the largest $11,000. For Sturtevant Hall the Institution is 
indebted, so far as special gifts are concerned, to the honored 
gentleman whose name it bears.* 

But this Institution has been sustained by the work of its 
professors, as well as by the care of its trustees and the liber- 
ality of its friends. Indeed, the faculty of such a school is 
the centre of its life and power. Let the faculty be weak 
or unfaithful, and the school will languish. No degree of 
fidelity on the part of others will compensate for lack of 
character or culture in the board of instruction. It has been 
said, somewhat roughly, that the elements of a good school, 
beginning with the least and ending with the most important, 
are bricks and books and brains ; which is true, if the word 
brains is used to signify not only intellect and knowledge,, 

* See Note A. 



34 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL IXSTITUTION. 

together with skill in imparting that knowledge, but also 
Christian character, earnest purpose, and enthusiastic labor. 
By all these, as I am disposed in this charitable hour to think, 
have the professors of this Institution, from its origin to the 
present time, been characterized. In genius, culture, taste, 
and temperament they have differed greatly from one an- 
other, but none of them have been found either mentally or 
morally unworthy of the trust reposed in them. Permit me 
to refer very briefly to those who are no longer members of 
the faculty, and especially to those who have finished their 
work on earth. 

Of the first professor, Rev. Irah Chase, D.D., I have 
already spoken. His patient research, his accurate knowl- 
edge, his love of biblical study, his fatherly interest in the 
students, and his admirable spirit in controversy, are admit- 
ted by all; and besides, he had the special privilege of im- 
pressing on the Institution his owu view of theological 
education. 

Of the second professor, Rev. Henry J. Ripley, D.D. 
(d. May 21, 1875), I would gladly say far more than circum- 
stances permit. But it is well, perhaps, that my words must 
be few ; for even " words fitly spoken," though " like apples 
of gold in pictures of silver," would add nothing to the im- 
pression of his worth already made upon your minds. He 
was a native of Boston, and a medal scholar of its Latin 
school. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1816, 
and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1819. He was 
ordained in his native city, but labored for several years as a 
missionary pastor in the State of Georgia. And then, in 
1826, at the beginning of the second year of this school, he 
entered in this place upon the principal work of his life, and 
for a period of thirty-four years held and filled a professor's 
chair in the Newton Theological Institution. As a teacher 
and writer, he was accurate in knowledge, perspicuous in 
language, and earnest in spirit. He was loved and revered 
by his pupils, trusted by his brethren in the ministry, and 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 35 

respected by Christians of every name. He was firm without 
harshness, gentle without weakness. In controversy he united 
the utmost candor with a strict adhesion to truth. In my 
intercourse with him during a period of thirty years, I never 
discovered a trace of unfairness in his judgment, of self-will 
in his temper, or of obliquity in his conduct; and of him, 
more emphatically than of any other man whom I have known 
so well, can I say, " Mark the perfect man and behold the 
upright, for the end of that man is peace." This I wrote 
before he was translated, and this I retain as the best expres- 
sion of my feeling now. 

Of the third professor, Rev. James D. Knowles, I can 
only repeat what I have read or heard. His collegiate and 
theological studies were pursued in Columbian College ; " for 
nearly seven years he was pastor of the Second Baptist 
Church in Boston; and for nearly six years, and until the 
time of his death (May 9, 1838), professor of Sacred Rhe- 
toric and Pastoral Duties in the Newton Theological Institu- 
tion." On the monument which marks his resting-place are 
these words : "As a scholar and an author, he consecrated 
his rare powers to the service of God and of man ; as a min- 
ister of the gospel, he preached, earnestly and faithfully, its 
everlasting truths ; as a theological teacher, he commended 
to his pupils the accomplishments of learning and the beauty 
of holiness ; as a man, faith in Christ exalted his affections 
and his aims, regulated his discharge of every duty, and an- 
imated his desires for the purity and the rest of heaven." 
Dr. Stow thus speaks of him : " Few knew him as well as 
myself. Hundreds admired him for his superior talent, his 
pure taste, his literary culture, and his refinement of manners, 
but only those whom he admitted to his confidence under- 
stood the warmth of his heart. With the appearance of cold 
reserve and self-satisfaction, he was really one of the most 
simple-hearted and childlike of men. ... I have never 
known the man whom I loved more, or who proved himself, 
on long acquaintance, worthy of greater respect." 



36 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

Rev. Barnas Sears, D.D., LL.D., the fourth professor, 
was a graduate of Brown University and of Xewton Theological 
Institution. Of his ability, character, and influence, it would 
be idle for me to speak. His reputation has long been national. 
As president of this Institution, as secretary of the Massachu- 
setts Board of Education, as president of Brown University, 
and as secretary of the Peabody Fund, he has been a leader 
in the cause of education forty years, and his power over the 
minds of men is everywhere recognized. As a teacher of 
Christian Theology, he brought all his varied attainments to 
bear upon the student's mind with remarkable skill, and suc- 
ceeded wonderfully in stimulating thought and research. He 
made his pupils feel the greatness and richness of the treas- 
ures to be sought in the domain of inspired truth. I shall 
never forget, and, I may almost say, I shall never lose the 
sense of delight with which I followed his course of theolog- 
ical inquiry and suggestion ; and as I now look back upon 
it, I think that the great charm of his teaching was due in 
part to his enthusiasm, in part to his confidence in the ability 
of his pupils to judge for themselves, and in part to his habit 
of pointing out and commending to them the sources of 
knowledge. They were made to feel that, without concealing 
his own belief, he would give them, as nearly as possible, 
"all sides of every question," and lead them to' answers 
founded on reasons, rather than on authority. But whether I 
have discovered the secret of his power or not, the alumni of 
this Institution who enjoyed his instruction will unite with me 
in saying that he was a great and inspiring teacher, and in 
blessing God for his work. 

And the same is true of Rev. Horatio B. Hackett, D.D., 
the fifth professor selected by the trustees. A graduate of 
Amherst College and of And over Theological Seminary, he 
was then for a time professor of Greek in Brown University, 
where he proved himself a thorough and accomplished teacher. 
In 1839, he entered upon the professorship of Biblical Liter- 
ature in this Institution, and for a period of thirty years, 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 37 

save one, performed the duties of his office with rare ability. 
To-day, as before he resigned his professorship, we gladly 
do him honor as a true scholar, ever increasing his stores of 
knowledge by study or by travel, and as an eloquent, enthu- 
siastic and faithful teacher, kindling in the hearts of his pupils 
a glowing desire to read the oracles of God in the very words 
employed by David, or his greater Son. The reputation of 
Dr. Hackett as a biblical scholar is equal, I suppose, to that 
of any man in America, and that reputation has been fairly 
and nobly won. It would, then, be an act of supererogation 
should I attempt to show the value of his services to this In- 
stitution ; for many of you have been his pupils, while all of 
you are familiar with his name, and can readily imagine the 
power of his influence. Yet I may be permitted to remark 
that, for a considerable period, at least, his was the name 
that attracted young men to this school, and his the ability 
which retained them here. Not only by the accuracy of his 
knowledge, but also by the singular beauty of his language, 
did he charm and inspire the classes under his charge, and 
wield a potent influence in favor of Christian culture. 

The Eev. Robert E. Pattison, D.D. (d. November 21, 
1874) , the sixth professor, was a man whom it was only neces- 
sary to know in order to trust. He was a thoughtful student 
of the Scriptures, a sound theologian, an effective preacher; 
and there were also in his spirit and manner a certain inde- 
scribable sincerity, friendliness and frankness which secured 
the love and confidence of his pupils. They found in him, 
not only a teacher, but a counsellor and a father, and I have 
heard them speak with marked admiration of the episodes in 
his lessons, when, giving free play to his rising emotions and 
illustrating his thoughts by incidents drawn from his own 
experience, he strove to kindle in their hearts a holy ardor for 
the work of God. It was no easy thing to be the successor 
©f Dr. Sears and the associate of Dr. Hackett in the work 
of instruction; but for a period of more than five years, and 
until he was called to undertake a second time the presidency 



38 XEWTOX THEOLOGICAL IXSTITUTIOX. 

of TTaterville College, he filled the chair of Christian The- 
ology with credit to himself and advantage to the school. 
During his lustrum of service, and in pursuance of his advice, 
the trustees obtained a modification of the charter, by which 
their number was doubled, and the duty of electing one-half 
that number assigned to the Northern Baptist Education 
Society. By this change it was hoped to bring the Institu- 
tion nearer the hearts of the people, and secure for it in full 
measure the confidence and support which it was supposed 
to merit. 

Of the seventh professor in the order of appointment, I 
know both too much and too little to speak with any con- 
fidence. 

Of the eighth, the Eev. Albert N. Arnold, D.D., I 
should be happy to say many things, had his connection with 
the seminary been longer. As it is, I cannot deny myself 
the pleasure of bearing witness to the singular and beautiful 
union of culture and principle, of courtesy and firmness, of 
wit and learning which was revealed in his conversation, 
making his presence a well-spring of delight and his friend- 
ship a Christian benediction. The hour when he resigned his 
chair in Newton was to me an hour of deep sorrow. Yet I 
now perceive that his resignation, occasioned by a fiscal 
crisis, was meant for good, as it gave Professor Arnold ere 
long the privilege of teaching in a department for which he 
was preeminently fitted by his early studies and his residence 
in Greece. 

Rev. Arthur S. Train, D.D., the ninth professor (d. 
January 2, 1872), was a graduate of Brown University, and 
for some time tutor in the same. He then became pastor of 
the First Baptist Church in Haverhill, Mass., an office which 
he filled with marked ability and usefulness twenty-five years. 
Next, he was professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Du- 
ties for a week of years in this seminary, when he resigned 
his chair and resumed his favorite calling in Framingham, 
Mass. In this town, where he was born, and with the church 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 39 

which his father, the Rev. Chakles Train, had served so 
well before hirn, he spent the rest of his life. During his 
connection with the Institution, he lived by my side, and hon- 
ored me with his friendship ; and though to a stranger his 
bearing may have seemed very self-reliant and almost care- 
less of the opinion of others, yet upon close acquaintance I 
found him to be gentle as well as manly, sympathetic as well 
as resolute, tender-hearted as well as conscientious. Natu- 
rally a superior scholar, he was also distinguished for good 
sense and practical sagacity ; but owing, if I mistake not, to 
his long and effective ministry in Haverhill, the functions of 
a Christian pastor seem to have been more delightful to him 
than those of a professor. 

Of the tenth professor, Rev. G. D. B. Pepper, D. D., it 
will be enough for me to say that his force and penetration 
as a thinker are only equalled by his excellence as a man. 
The rising ministry and the churches of Christ may justly 
expect from him important service. It would be natural for 
me to use far stronger language than this ; but I forbear, lest 
my words should seem to be those of an admiring teacher 
and friend, rather than those of an impartial historian. 

The Eev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., was the eleventh 
professor, and his term of service was seven years. So 
recently has he left us, and so well is he known to you all, 
that any attempt on my part to delineate his character or his 
work would be, at least, superfluous. Tha*t he was an able 
and energetic officer you all know, and I have the special 
satisfaction of numbering him with my friends and with those 
who will be sure to honor any position which they may be 
called to take. 

The four professors not yet* named are my honored asso- 
ciates, Heman Lincoln, O. S. Stearns, E. P. Gould, and 
S. L. Caldwell. May they serve the cause of truth in this 
Institution long, as I am sure they will serve it well ! 

That this succession of teachers has cooperated with the 
trustees in sustaining and building up the seminary, no one 



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will doubt. But has not their task been an easy one? A 
task free from care, doubt, or fear? A task comparatively 
small, and very attractive ? Perhaps so, I answer ; for I have 
spent a large part of my life in teaching, and cannot, there- 
fore, compare it with employments to which I am a stranger. 
But if any brother imagines that it is a release from care or 
doubt or fear, he is more ignorant of teaching in a theologi- 
cal school than I am of farming or politics. Let me recall 
the history of a single year. On the 16th of July, 1857, the 
resignation of Professor Aenold was reluctantly accepted. 
During the next year the board of instruction consisted of 
Drs. Ripley, Hackett, and myself, all of us doing, as we 
conceived, nearly double duty. On the 15th of July, 1858, 
Dr. Hackett was voted leave of absence from the Institution 
for one year, to perfect himself in the studies of his depart- 
ment by residence in Greece. I do not readily give way to 
fear, but the night after this was certainly a very long one, 
and the next morning I turned to the mirror half expecting 
to see my head white as snow. The work of the Biblical 
Department was assigned to Dr. Ripley ; Sacred Rhetoric 
was committed to Dr. R. W. Cushman, who spent about one 
day a week in Newton ; and instruction in Pastoral Duties to 
Dr. Baron Stow, who came out a dozen times or more in 
the second term and gave the senior class the benefit of his 
rich experience. Christian Theology and Church History 
were left for me. The year was one of perpetual anxiety 
and sufficient labor on my part, and before its close the health 
of Dr. Ripley was seriously impaired. I call it the dark 
year ; yet there was light amid the gloom, for such men as 
Drs. Pepper and Robins, with others of kindred spirit, 
were students in the seminary at that time. It may not be 
improper to mention that for a period of eight years from the 
date of Professor Arnold's resignation nothing was paid by 
the trustees for the instruction which was regularty given by 
one of the professors in Church History. The funds of the 
Institution were insufficient. 



historical address. 41 

What has Newton Theological Institution Accom- 
plished? 

To this question no one can give more than a partial 
answer ; for the best influence of such a school is spiritual 
and unseen. It goes into intelligence, culture, principle, 
character, into clearness of thought, justness of expression, 
breadth of view and consistency of action ; but in this proc- 
ess it mingles with a thousand other spiritual forces, and 
becomes indistinguishable by the eye of man. Yet nothing 
pertaining to this world is altogether spiritual, and the peo- 
ple are not far from right in judging an institution like this 
by what it may be seen to accomplish. True, the Master of 
us all has said, " Judge not according to the appearance, but 
judge righteous judgment," and this language forbids us to 
make hasty inferences from effect to cause, from conduct to 
character; but He has also said, "By their fruits ye shall 
know them," and this language forbids us to believe that a 
good cause will produce an evil effect, or an evil cause a good 
effect. 

But an institution of learning must have time for its work. 
Its beginnings are often feeble. The winds of heaven seem 
too rough for it. The caprices of men threaten its existence. 
It is at first a stranger, and therefore some withhold their 
confidence. It speaks a language but half understood, and 
therefore some are distrustful. It is only a candidate for 
public favor ; and not until it has many sons who know its 
character and appreciate its worth, and who are themselves 
known by the people, can it be sure of life. Not till its 
fruits are manifest will it be fully indorsed, and many years 
may pass before this end is reached. But at the close of 
half a century a school of sacred learning should be able to 
point to a goodly band of alumni, and say : Lo, these are 
the fruit of my toil, the proof of my faithfulness, and the 
crown of my rejoicing. To the alumni of Newton I gladly 
refer as evidence of what it has accomplished. And if this 



42 NEWTOy THEOLOGICAL iySTITUTIOy. 

designation be freely applied to all who have been connected 
with the Institution as students, the whole number will be 
more than seven hundred. This certainly is a very consider- 
able number, making an average attendance of perhaps thir- 
ty -five a year for the whole time, and an average of fourteen 
going out from the school every year. But the usefulness of 
a seminary depends less upon the number than upon the 
work of those who go out from it yearly. I will therefore 
call your attention to the service which Newton students have 
rendered to the churches and the people. 

The course of instruction prescribed for students in this 
school is intended to prepare them for the pastoral office, and 
as nearly as I can ascertain three-fourths of them have served 
the churches of Christ in our land. To these, therefore, I 
give the first place in my account of the work which has 
been done for mankind by the alumni of Newton. And of 
these, very many have been simply intelligent pastors, able 
to instruct the people by truth drawn from the Sacred Eecord, 
and content to labor for the Master wherever the providence 
of God directed their way. Many of them, though little 
known to the world, have been earnest and wise builders of 
the Lord's house. And it is to this class of ministers that 
churches located in county villages, East and West, have 
been indebted for much of their intelligence and stability, 
while it is from these churches that many young men of ster- 
ling worth find their way to the academy, the college, the 
seminary, and the pulpit. By the advice of a country pastor, 
who studied in this Institution, my own purpose to obtain a 
liberal education before entering the ministry was fixed, and 
words are wanting to express the gratitude which I have 
sometimes felt to him, while studying the Scriptures in the 
very words employed by the Saviour and his Apostles. That 
scores of men better fitted for the ministry than myself have 
been led to the same conclusion by similar advice, is certain. 
The influence of a village pastor in a rural district, if he is 
well-informed, sound in faith, pure in life, and earnest in 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 43 

work, is something which an angel might covet. And many 
such pastors have gone out from Newton to their work. 
With little reputation beyond their own parishes, and with few 
even there who fully appreciate their ability or service, they 
are yet, in the truest sense, men of God, and their record is 
on high. It would be unwise for me to mention the names 
of any who may perhaps belong to this class, but I may cer- 
tainly, without offence, express the conviction that they have 
no occasion whatever to look upon their labor as being in 
vain in the Lord. 

Other pastors there have been who have served for the 
most part country churches, but, nevertheless, have been 
widely known and respected, their influence pervading, it 
may be, a whole State. Premising that I cannot refer to 
all of this class, and that those who are not mentioned 
are no less deserving than those who are, I will venture 
to name in this connection Elijah Hutchinson, D. D. 
(d. April 5, 1872), who was so long pastor of the church in 
Windsor, Vt. ; Cornelius A. Thomas, D. D., who has min- 
istered to the church in Brandon forty years ; Daniel W. 
Phillips, D. D., now at the head of the Freedman's School in 
Nashville, Tenn., but formerly pastor in Medford, and after- 
wards in South Keading, Mass. ; Charles M. Bowers, D. D., 
who has made the town of Clinton a household word to the 
Baptists of our Commonwealth ; William H. Eaton, D. D., 
who has served Baptist churches in Salem, Mass., Nashua and 
Keene, N. H., besides the work which he has done for the 
cause of education; No yes W. Miner, D. D., pastor in 
Massachusetts, then in Springfield, 111., for a period of many 
years, and at present in Oshkosh, Wis. ; Daniel M. Welton, 
who served the Baptist Church in Windsor, Nova Scotia, 
fourteen years, and has recently been appointed professor in 
the Theological Department of Acadia College. Of men like 
these, some distinguished for wisdom in counsel, some for 
practical energy, some for knowledge of the Scriptures, and 
some for winning and persuasive address, a considerable 



44 XETTTOX THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

number might be named who completed their preparatory 
studies for the ministry in this Institution. Without pos- 
sessing the gift of eloquence in any remarkable degree, so as 
to draw after them the multitude, hungry for excitement, 
they haye known how to speak well and to the point, com- 
mending truth to the minds and hearts of men, and their 
influence upon the churches has been stimulating and salu- 
tary. 

Still others have been called to labor for the most part in 
cities, and by their conspicuous position, as well as by their 
acknowledged power, haye been known throughout the land. 
Of these it may not, perliaps, be invidious to name TTilliam 
Hague, D. D., distinguished alike for his eloquence of tongue 
and of pen, for his power iu the pulpit and on the platform, 
for his expositions of the divine \Yord and of current events, 
and for facility in adapting himself to new fields and new 
minds, without losing his interest in the old; Eollix H. 
Xeale, D.D., who still dwells with his own people, and 
renews his youth like the eagle : who is ready for a voyage to 
Europe and a scramble among the Alps, or a trip to Califor- 
nia and a ride on horseback through the snow to the Yosem- 
ite Valley : who is willing to address the students of his 
alma mater or the children of your Sabbath-school, and happy 
to drink a cup of tea, as "the honorary member," with the 
Baptist Social Union of Boston : who is in stature a Saul and 
in love a John, — welcome everywhere, and yet pastor of the 
First Baptist Church by preference, and for life ; Samuel B. 
Swaem, D. D. (d. January 30, 1865) , a large, earnest, sincere, 
friendly man, "great in mental power and great in heart," 
who is said by one to have been " transparent as glass and 
solid as marble," and, by another, to have possessed "gigan- 
tic common-sense " : who was a variable but withal a scrip- 
tural, a practical, and often a powerful preacher, " striking 
for the roots of thought, and caring very little for the foliage," 
and who seemed to me to be nobler in his Christian manhood 
than in his greatest work ; Joseph TT. Pakkek, D. D., whom 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 45 

I think of habitually as a mau "without fear and without 
reproach," upright, hopeful, resolute, equal to an emergency, 
but content with humble service, proud in his bearing as an 
English lord, } r et kind as a father in his spirit, — a good 
preacher, a wise pastor, and a genuine philanthropist, after 
the model of Paul ; Jonah G. Warren, D. D., who has often 
astonished me by his faith, cheered me by his hope, and 
thrilled me by his speech : who has appeared to me a veri- 
table man of God, a sort of prophet or seer, furnishing the 
best illustration which I have ever known of a style of utter- 
ance that is full of power to move the soul, and who has 
used with fidelity the ten talents intrusted to him by the 
Lord, whether acting as pastor, first in a growing village, 
and then in a considerable city, or as secretary of a great 
organization for giving the gospel to every creature ; and 
William Lamson, D. D., whose transparent language reveals 
as by a mirror the purity of his character and the beauty of 
his thought ; whose message, drawn from the Word of God, 
falls upon the ear in tones of natural eloquence, arresting 
attention, inspiring confidence, and kindling emotion, and 
whose influence as a Christian pastor and friend is so pre- 
cious, that we seem quite unable to spare him from our ranks. 
And what shall I say more ? for time would fail me to 
speak of Zabdiel Bradford, L. G. Leonard, D.D., Jere- 
miah S. Eaton, Jacob R. Scott, Lemuel Porter, D.D., 
David Burbank, LL. D., George Knox, and many others 
among the dead ; or of William H. Shailer, D. D. , William 
Howe, Elias L. Magoon, D. D. , Thomas D. Anderson, D. D. , 
Robert C. Mills, D.D., George W. Bosworth, D.D., 
A. H. Granger, D.D., J. C. Stockbridge, D. D., N. M. 
Williams, Franklin Wilson, D.D., J. W. M. Williams, 
D. D., Edwin T. Winexer, D. D., Nathan Burton, D. D., 
J. Wheaton Smith, D.D., George D. Boardman, D.D., 
James B. Simmons, D.D., George Bullen, George B. Gow, 
Alfred Owen, D.D., Henry A. Sawtelle, D.D., H. K. 
Pervear, D. W. Faunce, John B. Brackett, D. D., Com- 



46 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

fort E. Barrows, Henry G. S afford, Henry M. King, 
A. J. Gordon, Nelson J. Wheeler, Granville S. Abbott, 
Henry F. Colby, Frank T. Hazlewood, and many more 
among the living, who may be said to have always abounded 
in the work of the Lord. It would be very pleasant to cull 
them all by their names, in this family meeting, and to speak 
of the service which each one has been able to render ; but I 
dare not detain you so long. 

But the work of the ministry includes the evangelization of 
heathen as well as the public service of Christ where his 
name is known, and theological training is quite as useful to 
those who go far hence to the Gentiles as it is to those who 
preach the gospel in their native land. Hence any account 
of the alumni of Newton which should omit an emphatic 
reference to foreign missionaries educated here, would be de- 
fective and misleading. I do not indeed regard missionary 
service in India or Burmah, in China or Japan, as a synonym 
for martyrdom, nor do I infer that a pupil of mine is just on 
the verge of complete sanctification, t because he devotes his 
life to that service. But I am sure that the tie which binds 
men to their fatherland is strong, and that almost every one 
who contemplates the missionary work abroad, finds the sun- 
dering of that tie painful. Then, if never before, thinking 
of his native soil, he says,— 

" I love thy rocks and rills, 
Thy woods and templed hills," — 

and feels that his relinquishment of America for India is a 
personal sacrifice which cannot be made without a pang. It 
is therefore, in my opinion, just to look upon foreign mis- 
sionaries as men who have been moved by the Spirit of God 
to undertake a work of greater self-denial than that accepted 
by pastors at home. And the same may be said, though 
with less emphasis perhaps, of missionaries laboring in the 
Southern or Western States. In so far, then, as the religious 
atmosphere and instruction of a theological school tend to 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 47 

foster a missionary spirit, may that school be regarded as 
doing good service to the cause of Christ. And in this 
respect I claim for Newton an honorable record. For it ap- 
pears that fifty -four young men, more than one a year since 
the Institution was founded, and more than one in fourteen of 
its students, have gone into foreign fields. A few of these 
may properly be named. John Taylor Jones, D.D., (d. 
September 13, 1851), pursued his theological studies in 
Andover and Newton. He was a missionary in the East 
twenty years, eighteen of which were spent in Siam. He 
started our mission among the Siamese, and translated the 
whole New Testament into their language. He was a con- 
sistent Christian, an instructive preacher, a superior scholar, 
and his labors for the Siamese were attended by the blessing 
of God. Francis Mason, D.D. (d. March 3, 1874), a 
classmate of Dr. Jones in the seminary, preceded him about 
three months in the voyage to Burmah. His term of service, 
first in Tavoy and afterwards in Toungoo, extended over a 
period of about forty-four years. He was studious, hopeful, 
enterprising, "a mathematician, a naturalist, a linguist, and a 
theologian " ; he translated the Scriptures into the Sgau 
Karen dialect ; he published two works on Burmah ; to wit, 
"Tenasserim; or, Notes on the Fauna, Flora, Minerals, and 
Nations of British Burmah and Pegu," and "Burmah; its 
People and Natural Productions " ; he wrote also a memoir of 
his second wife, and a "Life of Ko-Thah-byu," and still later 
" The Story of a Working Man's Life." For a brief period 
his path was overshadowed by a cloud, but the sun shone 
upon it brightly again before his death ; and on the whole he 
must be pronounced one of the most useful missionaries in 
the Burman field. Re v. William G. Crocker, (d. February 
24, 1844), finished the regular theological course in 1834, 
and in July of the next year embarked for Liberia to preach 
the gospel among the Bassas. Within less than nine years 
his work was finished, and he was called to his reward. But 
his missionary record was a noble one, for during that short 



48 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

period he endured extraordinary hardships on the burning 
and sickly coast where he was stationed. Mr. Crocker is 
said to have been distinguished for sweetness of temper, sim- 
plicity of manners, large common-sense, and intense activity. 
Josiah Goddard (d. September 4, 1854), was graduated 
from this seminary in 1838, and sent out the same year as a 
missionary to the Chinese. For this people he labored ear- 
nestly and wisely sixteen years, first in Bangkok, next in 
Shanghai, and lastly in Ningpo. Besides his work as a 
preacher, he translated the whole ]S T ew Testament and the 
first three books of the Pentateuch into a dialect understood 
by the people. He was a man of fine judgment, scholarship, 
and temper, mastering the difficulties of the Chinese language 
as few Americans can, and accomplishing a very important 
service in a comparatively short period. In his place, and 
worthy of his name, labors to-day a son, Josiah R. Goddard, 
also a graduate of this Institution. John W. Johnson 
(d. October 21, 1872), was my own classmate for two 
years in this school, a man of excellent spirit and fair 
scholarship, respected by his teachers, and loved by his 
fellow-students. His missionary life was divided by a 
change of location into two parts, nearly equal; for he 
labored about twelve years in Hong Kong, and about thir- 
teen in Swatow. He was a man of many attractive quali- 
ties, a true Christian, and a good missionary. Benjamin 
C. Thomas (d. June 10, 1869), of the class of 1849, sailed 
for Burmah soon after graduating, and labored for the 
Karens twenty years in Tavoy, Henthada, and Basseiu, 
though more than half of his missionary life was passed in 
Henthada. His temperament was ardent and poetic, his 
piety deep and fervent ; but he was at the same time a man 
of sound judgment and practical spirit. His enthusiasm was 
intense, but it was guided by reason. He was aflame to 
move men, but always m the right direction. I have been 
told that very many of the hymns used by the Sgau Karens 
in worship were either translated or composed by him. He 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 49 

was an effective preacher, a wise counsellor, a devout Christ- 
ian, uniting in himself nearly all the qualities most useful to 
a missionaiy. 

In addition to these, and several more of kindred spirit, as 
Eeastus Willard, Cephas Pasco, Judson Benjamin, and 
the ever-to-be-lamented Kelley, who have finished their 
course on earth, I would gladly mention the names of some 
who still live, as Isaac M. Wilmarth, missionary to France, 
and now resident in Pemberton, N. J. ; Nathan Brown, 
D.D., for more than twenty years a missionary in Assam, 
and, after a residence of more than fifteen years in his native 
land, once more engaged in the foreign work, — a man of vigor- 
ous intellect and unbending principle ; Edward A. Stevens, 
D.D.,now almost forty years connected with the Burman 
work, — a veteran, but still strong, with clear head and true 
heart, ready to serve the cause till death ;* Joseph G. Binney, 
D. D., who was in this school for a time, and whose service 
to the Karens as head of our theological seminary has been 
invaluable, — a sensitive, high-souled, resolute, and Christian 
educator, who has spent about twenty-four years in the for- 
eign field ; Durlin L. Brayton, who was also for a time 
connected with this seminary, who has been in missionary 
service little less than forty years, and who is still a courage- 
ous and efficient soldier of the cross ; Lyman Jewett, D. D., 
of Nellore, whose gentleness of manner and of spirit is only 
surpassed by his unswerving devotion to the will of Christ and 
his heroic purpose to give the gospel to the Teloogoos ; and 
Arthur R. R. Crawley, of Henthada, whose fearless and 
manful nature has been consecrated for twenty-two years to 

* Edward 0. Stevens, son of Dr. Stevens, and missionary to the Burmans, is also a, 
graduate of this seminary. In the Catalogue of Newton, the names of father and son . 
appear several times, already, among the graduates ; e. g., John E. Weston and Henry. 
G. Weston, John T. Jones and Howard M. Jones, Enoch Hutchinson and John S. 
Hutchinson, Hervey Fitts and Lonzo L. Fitts, Mark Carpenter and Chapin H. Car- 
penter, Samuel B. Swaim and Joseph S. Swaim, Thomas D. Anderson and Thomas D. 
Anderson, Jr., Josiah Goddard and Josiah R. Goddard, Edward A. Stevens and. 
Edward 0. Stevens, Charles M. Bowers and Charles A. Bowers, Edwin B. Bullard. 
and Edwin Bullard. There may he other instances which have escaped my notice. 
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50 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

untiring labor for the salvation of the Burmese. And with 
these I might join the names of such younger men as Car- 
penter and Smith, Goddard and Cushixg, Bunker and 
Partridge, with others of equal age on the field ; and even 
then there would be left a considerable number of more 
recent recruits of whom I expect to hear good reports for 
years to come. 

This is our roll of honor ; these are the names which we 
love to recall, when asking ourselves what Newton has accom- 
plished. We lift them up into the sunlight, and read them 
over to our hearts, to assure ourselves in every hour of de- 
spondency that the Spirit of the living God, the spirit of love 
and self-sacrifice, have been with us in the seminary from the 
beginning until this hour. May the percentage of laborers 
for the foreign field never diminish, until the gospel is 
preached to every creature, and the whole world is subject to 
Christ ! 

But while the direct object of this school has been to assist 
young men in preparing for the ministry of the gospel, at 
home or abroad, it has also, through its students, rendered 
important service to the cause of liberal and theological edu- 
cation ; for the work of this Institution, though religious, 
is yet in the highest sense educational, and the method and 
spirit which it has illustrated are such as tend to qualify 
men for the office of teaching. Indeed, it would not be rash 
to assert, that some men, who have had the benefit of colle- 
giate discipline, have been aroused, for the first time, in this 
seminary, to a sense of their own power, and have learned 
here, as never before, the infinite value of truth to the human 
soul. Hence, their education, in the true sense of the word, 
has been begun in this place. I do not, however, mention 
these instances for the purpose of emphasizing them. As 
exceptional cases, which they clearly are, it is enough to 
have given them a passing notice. But what may fairly be 
emphasized is this : that the mental and spiritual training of 
Newton has been of such a character as to carry on the edu- 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 51 

cation begun in the academy and continued in the college, so 
that a young man, leaving the seminary, has been better 
qualified to do the work of an educator, in almost any posi- 
tion, than he was when graduated from college. Of this I 
entertain no doubt whatever; and I will even venture to 
repeat, what I said in Philadelphia three years ago, that pro- 
fessors of the natural sciences would be much better prepared 
for their high office, at the present time, if they were to take 
a course in theology before entering upon that office. 

My information may not be exact, but I think that about 
fifty-five students of Newton have been, for longer or shorter 
periods, either presidents or professors in colleges or theo- 
logical seminaries. Whether they have done as much for the 
advancement of true religion, by teaching, as they would 
have done by giving themselves exclusively to the ministry 
of the Word, I am unable to say; but of their ability and 
usefulness in the posts filled by them I can speak with entire 
confidence. It may be proper to remark that I do not 
include in this number the heads of our important schools 
for the freedmen: as D. W. Phillips, D.D., in Nashville, 
Tenn. ; Chakles H. Corey, in Richmond, Ya. ; Henry 
Tupper, in Raleigh, N. C. ; and G. M. P. King, in Washing- 
ton, D. C. ; for the schools over which they preside are neither 
colleges nor distinctively theological seminaries, though much 
nearer the latter than the former, since their primary object 
is to provide a suitably instructed ministry for the colored 
people of the South. But whether the honored brethren at 
the head of these schools be called missionaries or presidents, 
or, rather, be supposed to unite these two forms of Christian 
service in one person, they are doing a great and good work 
in a very satisfactory manner, and we number them among 
the choicest jewels which adorn the brow of our alma mater. 

Time will not permit me to speak of all the presidents and 
professors who have been indebted to this Institution for some 
part of their training, and it is difficult to make any selection 
from the list of names before me without passing by those 



52 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

who are no less worthy than the ones selected. Yet you 
would scarcely pardon me if I should pass over in silence all 
the names belonging to this list. In the class of 1826 was 
Eli B. Smith, D. D., for a long period president of the New 
Hampton school, and professor of Theology, — a teacher of 
deep convictions, sound views, and high integrity, by whom 
many excellent ministers were taught the principles of our 
holy religion. In the class of 1828, Barnas Sears, D.D., 
president of this Institution, and professor of Christian The- 
ology, and, at a later day, president of Brown University, — 
a teacher anjia man who will never cease to be honored by 
his pupils. In the class of 1831, James G. Binney, D. D., 
president of Columbian College, and now head of the 
Theological Seminary in Rangoon, by whom more Karen 
preachers have been educated than by any other man ; and 
Joel S. Bacon, D. D., president of Georgetown College, 
Kentucky, professor in the Hamilton Literary and Theo- 
logical Institution, and president of Columbian College, — a 
man of good repute in all the offices which he filled. In the 
class of 1832, John S. Maginnis, D. D., w T ho was called to be 
a systematic theologian by the cast of his own mind, as well 
as by the grace of God and the voice of his brethren, and who 
is remembered by his pupils of Hamilton and Rochester with 
grateful esteem. In the class of 1835, David N. Sheldon, 
D. D., for some years president of Waterville College, a keen 
metaphysician and a perspicuous writer. In the class of 
1836, James L. Reynolds, D.D., professor in the Furman 
University, South Carolina, — a most admirable Christian 
scholar and teacher. In the class of 1840, John L. Lin- 
coln, LL. D., the eloquent and accomplished professor 
of the Latin language in Brown University ; and James 
Upham, D.D., for a considerable period head of the New 
Hampton Institution, then located at Fairfax, Vermont, and 
professor in the theological department. In the class of 
1841, Albert N. Arnold, D.D., professor in this Institu- 
tion, in Hamilton, and in Chicago, to whom I have before 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 53 

referred. In the class of 1842, James S. Mims (d. 1855), 
for eleven years professor in the theological department of 
Furman University, — a conscientious, manly teacher, who 
"stimulated the mental activity of his pupils, and inspired 
them with something of his own ardor"; Robert A. Fyfe, 
D.D., since 1860 principal of the Canadian Literary Institu- 
tion, in Woodstock, Canada, and professor of Theology in 
the same ; and Ezekiel G. Robinson, D. D., who served for 
a time as professor in the Covington Theological Seminary, 
was for twenty years the pride and glory of the Rochester 
Theological Seminary, and is now president of our oldest 
university, where he is still, as many before me can testify, 
a wonderfully captivating and stimulating instructor. In the 
class of 1843, George W. Samson, D. D., — a man of catholic 
spirit, indefatigable industry, and varied attainments, who 
was for many years president of Columbian College ; Martin 
B. Anderson, LL. D., professor in Waterville College, 
editor, and now for a long time president of Rochester 
University, — an educator, a statesman and an orator ; and 
Henry G. Weston, D.D., president of Crozer Theological 
Seminary, who is winning, original, independent, suggestive, 
and successful in everything which he undertakes. In the 
class of 1844, Peter C. Edwards (d. 1867), professor in 
Furman University, South Carolina, — an able teacher and a 
noble Christian, of whom Professor James C. Furman writes, 
"As to his character, I must say, that a man so large-hearted, 
pure in purpose, and scrupulously conscientious, so steadfastly 
devoted to high aims, yet so wholly unassuming and modest, 
it has seldom been my lot to know." In the class of 1845, 
Ebenezer Dodge, D. D., president of Madison University, 
and professor of theology, — a man of lofty thoughts as well 
as lofty stature, and worthy of the double sceptre which he 
wields ; Kendall Brooks, D. D., president of Kalamazoo Col- 
lege, — a mathematician, a statistician, and a scholar ; Samuel 
L. Caldwell, D.D., whose preeminence in culture and 
knowledge of literature is readily conceded by all; and 



54 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

Heman Lincoln, D.D., who, as an editor, a writer, and a 
teacher, has won a high place in the esteem of his brethren, 
the last two being now professors in this Institution. In the 
class of 1846, Oakman S. Steabxs, D.D., who is at once 
sensitive and true, enthusiastic and discreet, a professor also 
in his alma mater. In the class of 1847, Basil Manly, 
D.D., for a period of years professor in the Southern Theo- 
logical Seminary at Greenville, South Carolina, and now 
president of the Georgetown College, Kentucky. In the 
class of 1850, John B. Foster and Samuel K. Smith, both 
of them professors in Colby University. In the class of 1851, 
Fletcher O. Marsh, professor in Denison University. In 
the class of 1853, Edward C. Mitchell, D.D., professor in 
the Union Theological Seminary, Chicago ; and Artemas W. 
Sawyer, D.D., president of Acadia College. In the class of 
1855, Samson Talbot, D.D., late president of Denison 
University, a man who had accomplished so much, and who 
gave promise of accomplishing so much more, that his death 
seemed strangely inexplicable. In the class of 1860, George 
D. B. Pepper, D.D., professor in Crozer Theological Semi- 
nary. In that of 1861, Joseph H. Gilmore, of Rochester 
University, and Henry C. Robins, D.D., president of Colby 
University. In the class of 1862, David Weston, too soon 
removed by death from a sphere of labor to which he seemed 
peculiarly adapted ; and in the class of 1868, Ezra P. Gould, 
professor in this Institution, who exhibits, in all his work, 
exact scholarship, logical discrimination, and independent 
thought; and George A. Whittemore, whose culture, 
courtesy, and literary attainments are recognized by all who 
know him. 

It is for you to judge whether these men have achieved 
anything for the cause of truth ; whether their work has been 
a blessing to mankind ; whether their names are an honor to 
the seminary that nurtured them. It is for you to judge from 
their fruits whether they have done anything for the character, 
the literature, the Christian enterprise of our beloved denom- 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 55 

ination ; whether they have been men of faith and hope, of 
foresight and progress, encouraging the hearts and strengthen- 
ing the hands of their brethren ; whether they have served the 
cause of truth in building up other schools of the highest 
character and usefulness, as Rochester University and Theo- 
logical Seminary, Furman University, and Greenville Theo- 
logical Seminary, Crozer Theological Seminary, and many 
others which it is needless to mention. 

This Institution led the way in establishing a three years' 
course, and insisting on thorough and deliberate investigation 
of the Scriptures, as a preparation for the sacred office. 
These men are a part of the fruit. Is it good ? 

But the alumni of Newton have not only served the world 
as ministers, missionaries, presidents, and professors, but also 
as writers and editors. I am unable to give the number of 
those who are known as authors, but it is certainly respect- 
able, and the volumes which they have given to the public 
would make a library worthy of any man's attention. In the 
list of authors might be placed the names of such men as 
Barnas Seaks, William Hague, Francis Mason, Joseph 
Banvard, David N. Sheldon, William Crowell, Elias 
L. Magoon, Albert N. Arnold, George W. Samson, John 
C. Stockbridge, Samuel L. Caldwell, Ebenezer Dodge, 
Lucius E. Smith, Joseph A. Goodhue, H. Lincoln Way- 
land, Daniel W. Faunce, and A. J. Gordon, with others 
of equal merit. In the list of editors could be placed Barnas 
Sears, Nathan Brown, William B. Jacobs, Enoch Hutch- 
inson, William Crowell, Ezekiel G. Robinson, Martin B. 
Anderson, Henry G. Weston, William C. Child, Kendall 
Brooks, Heman Lincoln, Franklin Wilson, Edwin T. 
Winkler, John H. Luther, Samuel K. Smith, John B. 
Foster, H. Lincoln W^ayland, Elisha Budd De Mill, 
Lucius E. Smith, Henry S. Burrage, Thomas S. Rogers, 
•and many more. And in the list of frequent contributors to 
the " Christian Review and Baptist Quarterly," or to some of 
our ablest religious papers, might be placed a still greater 



56 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

number of names which deserve to be mentioned. In this 
way the sons of Newton have made their influence felt in ten 
thousand homes for the last forty years, and contributed 
their part to the intelligence and progress of our people. 

How can Newton Theological Institution be Impeoved ? 

To some of you this question may appear unseasonable, 
and you may perhaps say in your hearts : " The occasion is 
sacred to the past. Let us recount the mercies of God, and 
offer him thanks for the good that has been done. Let us 
rest from labor, and be jubilant to-day, without peering into 
the future, or anticipating the work which must then be per- 
formed." Far be it from me to mar the satisfaction which 
any one of you may feel in reviewing the history of this In- 
stitution ! Nay, " I call you to record this day that I have 
not shunned to declare" the grace of God to the founders, 
the guardians, the benefactors, the teachers, and the students 
of this school. But the future is separated by an invisible 
line from the past, and while we are thinking of the one we 
are gliding into the other. It is true that we have taken a 
glance backward ; but it has been taken, as it were, over the 
shoulder, without arresting for an instant our onward steps. 
The goal is before us, and, like the apostle, we shall do well 
to press eagerly forward until we reach it. And if there is 
any lesson which our glance backward teaches, it is this : that 
the Institution located on yonder hill is not yet perfect, but 
is capable, rather, of indefinite improvement; for every step 
of its progress thus far has but opened the way in due time for 
another step. Funds, buildings, books, teachers, have been 
increased from time to time, and in almost every instance the 
addition has been a permanent gain to the working power of 
the Institution ; but there are deficiencies yet to be supplied, 
improvements yet to be made. 

To begin with that which is external, the Mansion House, 
or rather, as it is affectionately called, " The Old Mansion 
House," belongs evidently to the aroi^u of a former seon, 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 57 

to the rudiments of an earlier dispensation, and it may there- 
fore in the course of nature be expected soon to vanish away. 
The same also may be said in respect to the old carpenter's 
shop, or gymnasium, as called in later times, an edifice which 
is sadly out of harmony with the age and the place. Instead 
of these, buildings adapted to the present necessities of the 
school should be erected. 

But the Institution is capable of internal improvement as 
well as external. To say nothing of the progress which may 
be justly hoped from the several professors in the range, 
accuracy and method of their instruction, a progress which 
need not soon be arrested, I am satisfied that more time 
and attention should be given to elocution ; that is, to the 
proper culture of voice and manner in speaking. For the 
primary object of this school, is to assist men in preparing 
for the ministry, and the work of the ministry was never 
more important than it is to-day. For the presentation of 
Christian truth with the living voice is the distinctive feature 
of that work ; and surely, if Christian truth ever needed rein- 
forcement by look and tone and gesture, by weight of per- 
sonal character and conviction, by putting eye to eye and 
heart to heart, it needs this in our own day. A training in 
elocution, so well directed and persevering as to overcome 
diffidence and secure a natural, earnest, impressive utterance, 
both of thought and feeling, would double the power of the 
ministry ; and though provision has already been made by 
the liberality of a far-sighted friend for a certain amount of 
such training, I am persuaded that much more can yet be 
done in this part of education for the ministry, and I trust 
that at no distant day the work of discipline for vocal utter- 
ance will be extended through our entire course. 

Moreover, for the sake of bringing to our candidates for 
the sacred office, the wisdom, the experience, the example, 
and the inspiration of able men in the service, I believe 
that three or four lectureships ought to be established in con- 
nection with this school, one of them perhaps on the oriental 



58 NE1VT0N THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

systems of religion, one on Christian missions in the broadest 
sense, one on the relations of religion and science, and one 
on the various practical duties of the ministry. In this way, 
more of the actual life and stir of the age might be intro- 
duced into the seminary, without interfering with a careful 
and reverent and thorough study of the living oracles. And 
if I am not in error, there is at least one generous brother 
who is prepared to begin the work by founding the first lec- 
tureship. 

Another suggestion may properly be made ; namely, that 
the Institution is in need of scholarships to assist young men 
in meeting the expense of a course of study. It has indeed 
a few already, but not as many as its circumstances require. 
The "Knowles Scholarship" was founded in 1830, by the 
M Young Men's Baptist Education Society of Boston," and it 
has rendered its most useful assistance to one student a year 
for almost half a century. At different periods since 1830, 
seven others have been founded, and five out of the seven by 
Christian women. But I am confident that the seminary 
could use twenty-five scholarships instead of eight, without 
affording help unwisely.* 

Thus, then, looking into the immediate future, the decade 
just before us, and making no attempt to pierce the darkness 
beyond, I see that the Institution can be improved, and I 
doubt not the same will be true after all has been done that 
is now suggested. I commend it, therefore, to the favor of 
God and to the liberality of his children. Born of faith, 
protected by Providence, matured by age, and yet capable of 
indefinite growth, we hand it over to the second half of its 
first century. It has survived the perils of childhood and 
the uncertainties of youth, and we may confidently hope that 
fifty years hence its eye will not be dim nor its natural force 
abated. God bless Newton Theological Institution ! 

* See Note B. 



NOTES. 



59 



NOTES 



[A.] 

It was obviously impossible to mention the names of all who have con- 
tributed to the pecuniary support of the Institution in an address to be read 
before a popular assembly. But it may be interesting to the friends of 
Newton to see the names of contributors for the original purchase of the 
estate and repairs of the buildings ; also of contributors to the erection of 
Colby Hall, to the $100,000 Endowment Fund, and to the $200,000 additional 
Endowment Fund. 

Original Subscription. 

(Copied from Records.) 
The Committee appointed to purchase, in behalf of the Trustees of the 
Newton Theological Institution, the Peck Estate in Newton (so called), and to 
put the same in repair for the use of the Institution, and to solicit and obtain 
in behalf of said Trustees subscriptions to meet the expense of said purchase 
and repairs, have attended to the service assigned them, and ask leave to 
report that the whole expense of purchase and repairs is as follows, viz.: — 



Jan. 



1. To Cash paid for said Estate, $4,250 00 

Whole expense of repairs, 3,748 45 



$7,998 45 



To meet the above expense the Committee acknowledge the following 
subscriptions, viz. : — 



John B. Jones, Boston, . $500 00 

Ward Jackson, Boston, . 500 00 

Heman Lincoln, Boston, . 500 00 

Nath'l R. Cobb, Boston, . 1,070 15 

Ann M. Lane, Boston, . . 100 00 

Jon'a Carlton, Boston, . . 300 00 

Ichabod Macomber, Boston, 300 00 

Ensign Lincoln, Boston, . 250 00 

John Sullivan, Boston, . 200 00 



John Tappan, Boston, . 
Thomas Kendall, Boston, 
Elijah Mears, Boston, . 
Jeremiah Fitch, Boston, 
David R. Griggs, Boston,' 
E. & A. Winchester, Boston 
Ezra Chamberlain, Boston, 
J. A. Lamson, Boston, . 
John H. Smith, Boston, 



. $100 00 


. 100 00 


25 00 


20 00 


50 00 


, 50 00 


20 00 


5 00 


. 20 00 



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Samuel Beals, Boston, . 

A Friend, Boston, 

Estate of Lydia Sparhawk 

Boston, 
Jona. Bixby, Newton, . 
Eeuben Stone, Newton, 
Josiak Bacon, Newton, 
M. Davis, Newton, 
Miss Bunding, Newton, 
William Jackson, Newton, 



. $50 00 


1 00 


. 1,000 00 


50 00 


50 00 


10 00 


6 00 


1 00 


50 00 



Levi Farwell, Cambridge, . $1,070 15 
Edward Bacon, Cambridge, 10 00 
Jona. Bacheller, Lynn, 
Elijah Corey, Brookline, 
Eleanor Dana, Brighton, 
Old Norfolk and Middlesex 
Missionary Society, . 



1,070 15 
400 00 
100 00 

20 00 



$7,998 45 



The Committee further report that good and sufficient deeds of the 
premises above alluded to accompany this report, all of which is respectfully 
submitted. 

LEVI FARWELL, 
JONA. BACHELLER, 
NATH'L RIPLEY COBB, 
HEMAN LINCOLN, 
ENSIGN LLXCOLN, 

Committee. 
Newtox, September 14, 1826. 



Subscribers to the $100,000 Fuxd. 



Arnold, Francis R., 
Allen, Stephen G., 
Anderson, T. D., 
Andrews, Win., . 
Adlam, S., . 
Allen, H., . 
Alden, John, 
Ammidown, EC., . 
Alden, A., . 
Adams, A., . 
Allen, L. B., 
Aldrich, Jonathan, 
Adams, N., . 
Bacheller, Jonathan, 
Blake, Wm., 
Blackington, Sanford 
Bacon, J., . 
Baldwin, Margaret D 
Bellows, A. J., . 
Bosworth, Geo. W., 



^1,000 00 


500 00 


375 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


50 00 


30 00 


25 00 


10 00 


15 00 


50 00 


50 00 


6,500 00 


1,000 00 


1,000 00 


1,000 00 


500 00 


500 00 


375 00 



Banvard, Joseph, 


8400 00 


Burlingham, A. H., . 


375 00 


Boynton, N., 


300 00 


Babcock, George, 


300 00 


Brown, Newell, . 


150 00 


Brooks, Kendall, 


150 00 


Baldwin, J., 


150 00 


Burr, E., , 


200 00 


Brooks, Benj. F., 


150 00 


Brown, F. G., . . 


100 00 


Bemis, Edward, . 


100 00 


Bradley, B., 


100 00 


Budlon, Jas. E., . 


75 00 


Bartlett, James, . 


50 00 


Baldwin, James, 


50 00 


Bacon, Agnes, 


50 00 


Brooks, Geo., 


50 00 


Brooks, Kendall, Jr., . 


50 00 


Bowdlear, W. A., 


25 00 


Benton, Caroline A., . 


25 00 



FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



61 



Byrne, M., . 


$30 00 


Cushing, S. T., . 


$30 00 


Blanchard, Geo. S., . 


25 00 


Corey, Henry, . 


30 00 


Barrett, Charles, 


30 00 


Coolidge, John, Jr., . 


25 00 


Bronson, B. F., . 


20 00 


Comey, J., . 


25 00 


Beecher, Mrs. Wm,, . 


10 00 


Caldwell, S. L., . 


25 00 


Ballard, G., . . . 


15 00 


Cole, E. H., 


15 00 


Barker, A. J., . 


10 00 


Cheney, M., 


15 00 


Belcher, Samuel, 


2 00 


Carpenter, N., 


10 00 


Brown, James, . 


50 00 


Davis, Isaac, 


2,000 00 


Cummings, Geo., 


5,000 00 


Dodge, Solomon H., . 


2,000 00 


Church, 1st Bap., Beverly 


119 00 


Downs, H. S., . 


1,500 00 


Church, W. Dedham, Bap. 


40 26 


Dane, Nancy, 


500 00 


Church, 1st Bap., Salem, 


101 12 


Dana, Samuel, . 


1,000 00 


Converse, J. W., 


3,000 00 


Duncan, J. H., . 


400 00 


Colby, Gardner, . 


3,000 00 


Demerest, S. C, . 


100 00 


Corey, Elijah, . 


5,000 00 


Dyer, E. C, . . 


100 00 


Chase, H. S., ... 


1,000 00 


Dexter, Geo. S., . 


100 00 


Cummings, John, 


1,000 00 


Dodge, E., . 


100 00 


Cummings, Daniel, . 


800 00 


Dennison, F., 


25 00 


Carleton, Geo. J., 


500 00 


Driscol, James, . 


25 00 


Chamberlin, Edward, 


500 00 


D. F. of F., . . . 


25 00 


Chilson, Gardner, 


500 00 


Davis, Mial, 


15 00 


Colby, Lewis, 


375 00 


Davis, S. S., 


15 00 


Caswell, Alexis, . 


400 00 


Dalton, A., . 


15 00 


Caldicott, T. F., . 


400 00 


Emerson, E. C, . 


1,000 00 


Converse, Benjamin B., 


100 00 


Edmands, J. Wiley, . 


500 00 


Chamberlin & Foster, 


200 00 


Eaton, James, 


100 00 


Cummings, Elizabeth, 


250 00 


Elwell, J., . 


100 00 


Coolidge, Josiah, 


200 00 


Edwards, B. A., . 


50 00 


Coggshall, J., 


150 00 


Eaton, J. S., 


75 00 


Coolidge, D. S., . 


200 00 


Frost, Jonathan, 


300 00 


Chipman, Geo. W., 


100 00 


Frost, Eliza A., . 


300 00 


Cutting, S. S., . 


100 00 


Foss, S., . . . 


100 00 


Child, Wm. C, . 


100 00 


Forbes, Gustavus, 


100 00 


Chapman, Khodes B., 


100 00 


Field, A., . 


100 00 


Carpenter, Cyrus, 


100 00 


Field, S., . 


50 00 


Chase, Geo. J., . 


100 00 


Farnum, J., Jr., . 


50 00 


Capen, E., . 


100 00 


Fyfe, K. A., 


48 00 


Coggshall, Elizabeth, 


100 00 


Frost, Mary W., 


25 00 


Cochran, G. W., . 


125 00 


Fuller, N., . 


30 00 


Couch, E. P., . . 


25 00 


Foster, J. W., . 


30 00 


Clark, David, 


100 00 


Frost, V., . 


10 00 


Converse, J. W. ; 


50 00 


Felch, A., . 


15 00 


Crane, 0., . 


50 00 


Friend — widow's mite, 


1 00 


Coolidge, John, . 


100 00 


Geo. & H. E. Farwell, 


10 00 


Chandler, Albert F., . 


50 00 


Felt, John G., . 


100 00 


Child, S. P., 


60 00 


Female Benev. Soc, Three 


) 


Crosby, J. S., 


75 00 


Eivers, 


15 00 



Q2 



NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 



Fosdick, Carter & Co., 


$7 50 


Hubbard, Mrs., . 


$25 00 


Fairbanks, Geo. G., . 


25 00 


Hill, C, 


30 00 


Griggs, Thomas, . 


2,000 00 


Hodges, J., . 


10 00 


Green, C. E., 


1,000 00 


Hadley, Moses, . 


10 00 


Glover, H. E., . 


500 00 


Harkness, A., 


10 00 


Gilmore, J. A., . 


500 00 


Hanson, J. F., . 


10 00 


Granger, James N., . 


400 00 


Howe, C, . 


10 00 


Goodnow, Joseph, 


300 00 


Howe, Jared S., . 


15 00 


Greenleaf, Thomas, . 


300 00 


Hunt, Betsy, 


5 00 


Girdwood, J., 


200 00 


Howland, N"., 


10 00 


Gould, F., . 


100 00 


Ives, Hope, 


500 00 


Gould & Lincoln, 


600 00 


Ingalls, C, . 


60 00 


Gammell, Wm., . 


100 00 


Jones, J. B., 


500 00 


Gould, Thomas, . 


100 00 


Jacobs, A. A., & Co., . 


500 00 


Gammell, A. M., . 


100 00 


Johnson, Geo. S., 


500 00 


Gunderson, J. G., 


100 00 


Jackson, Henry, . 


500 00 


Green, Wm., 


100 00 


Jacobs, Hiram, . , . 


500 00 


Grulb, Wm., 


50 00 


Johnson, Earl W., 


100 00 


Gilkey, Royal, . 


50 00 


Jackson, Susan M., . 


50 00 


Greenough, B., . 


50 00 


Joyce, Geo. F., . 


50 00 


Graves, J. M., 


25 00 


Jones, Lewis, 


50 00 


Granger, A. H., . 


15 00 


Kingsbury, J., 


500 00 


Green, H. M., 


3 00 


Knowles, Willard, 


300 00 


Gould, A. H., . 


5 00 


Kelly, Hall J., . 


100 00 


Hill, Francis, 


500 00 


Kemp, N. P., 


50 00 


Howe, William, . 


375 00 


Kelly, M. J., 


15 00 


Holman, John, . 


300 00 


Knox, George, . 


15 00 


Hill, J. P., . 


300 00 


Kendall, Chas. S., 


500 00 


Hovey, Wm. B., . 


300 00 


Kingsbury, L., . 


5 00 


Hovey, Alvah, . 


300 00 


Lady and others, for libr'y 


, 1,750 00 


Hail, Geo., . 


200 00 


Low, Ariel, . 


750 00 


Hayes, Joshua, . 


250 00 


Lawton, Geo., 


600 00 


Hill, Amos, Jr., . 


300 00 


Ladies' Mite Society, . 


100 00 


Hopkins, Franklin, . 


100 00 


Lewis, John G., . 


500 00 


Holmes, J. A. & J., . 


100 00 


Lane, Charles, . 


800 00 


Hall, Enoch, 


100 00 


Little, Geo. W., & Co., 


300 00 


Hill, Phoebe S., . 


100 00 


Locke, Asa, Jr., . 


250 00 


Hyde, T. R., 


100 00 


Lincoln, H. E., . 


200 00 


Hill, William, . 


100 00 


Lincoln, John L., 


100 00 


Hutchinson, Jacob H., 


100 00 


Lincoln, Heman, 


100 00 


Husten, H., 


100 00 


Locke, Asa, 


100 00 


Horton, D. W., . 


100 00 


Locke, Josiah, . 


100 00 


Hart, H. B. & H. M., . 


100 00 


Locke, Elbridge, 


100 00 


Hammond, Thomas, . 


100 00 


Lincoln, Rev. Heman, 


100 00 


Harvey, A., 


100 00 


Lewis, Simeon H., 


50 00 


Hunter, Wm., 


50 00 


Locke, Hannah C, 


58 00 


Hutchinson, Thos. 0., 


50 00 


Lamson, Wm., . 


50 00 


Hill, Samuel, 


30 00 


Lothrop, Manly, 


25 00 



FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



63 



Locke, John A., . 


$25 00 


Pingree, S. P., . 


$100 00 


Leonard, L. H., . 


1 00 


Parker, Jonathan, 


100 00 


Leonard, N., 


5 00 


Parkhurst, J. W., 


50 00 


Lovering, Mason, 


3 00 


Pryor, John, 


50 00 


Merrill, J. W., . 


300 00 


Pratt, D. D., 


50 00 


Mumford, Louisa D., . 


100 00 


Pendleton, E. B., 


25 00 


Martin, Sylvanus G., . 


100 00 


Pendleton, J. M., 


25 00 


Manning, C, 


100 00 


Pope, Wm. G., and wife, 


25 00 


Mills, R. C, 


100 00 


Phillips, D. W., . 


30 00 


Miller, Ann Eliza, 


50 00 


Parker, J. W., for friend, 


5 00 


Magoon, E. L., . 


50 00 


Quarles, S., . 


200 00 


Mason, Geo., 


75 00 


Quincy, J., . 


100 00 


Munroe, James, . 


50 00 


Richardson, Thomas, . 


. 1,100 00 


Mclntire, Charles, 


50 00 


Ripley, H. J., 


500 00 


Merriam, F., 


25 00 


Reynolds, Susan D., . 


500 00 


March, Geo. N., . 


10 00 


Rockwood, J. M., 


30 00 


March, Delano, . 


20 00 


Rogers, E. B., 


300 00 


Massey, J. T., 


20 00 


Rogers, H. A., . 


300 00 


Moorhouse, Joseph, . 


2 00 


Richardson, Wm. S., . 


150 00 


Mixter, D., . 


3 00 


Rugg, Geo. W., . 


100 00 


Newell, A. H., . 


500 00 


Richardson, J. M., 


100 00 


Neale, R. H., 


375 00 


Redding, C. W., . 


100 00 


Newell & Daniels, 


200 00 


Read, Jas. W., . 


75 00 


Nickerson, Thomas, . 


250 00 


Ripley, S., . 


30 00 


Nixon, Warren, . 


100 00 


Russell, Levi F., 


25 00 


Newton, William, 


100 00 


Shepard, Michael, 


6,000 00 


Noyes, Samuel, . 


50 00 


Sanderson, Daniel, 


2,000 00 


Nutting, P., 


50 00 


Sanford, James A., 


1,000 00 


Nelson, Ehen A., 


10 00 


Spence, John, 


500 00 


Noyes, G. S., 


10 00 


Slater, Sarah J., . 


500 00 


Nichols, Chas. H., 


50 00 


Stetson, Lucy Ann, . 


500 00 


Olmstead, J. W., 


50 00 


Swaim, S. B., 


375 00 


Owen, Wm. B., . 


100 00 


Samson, G. W., . 


375 00 


Peahody, Alfred, 


1,500 00 


Stow, Baron, 


400 00 


Pond, Moses, 


1,000 00 


Stockhridge, J. C, 


375 00 


Patch, Abijah, . 


100 00 


Spence, G. S. G., 


375 00 


Pond, Moses W., 


20 00 


Stackpole, R. M., 


300 00 


Perkins, S. S., . 


1,000 00 


Seccomb, E. R., . 


300 00 


Pattison, R. E., . 


500 00 


Stillman, O. M., . 


300 00 


Plummer, J. L., . 


500 00 


Seccomb, E., 


250 00 


Parker, John A., . . 


500 00 


Stowe, Phineas, . 


200 00 


Parker, Mrs. Mary B., 


500 00 


Smith, Thos. P., . 


300 00 


Phillips, Sampson & Co., 


500 00 


Safford, Henry, . 


150 00 


Parker, J. W., . 


400 00 


Simmons, Wm. B. D., * 


200 00 


Porter, Benjamin, 


400 00 


Swan, T., . 


100 00 


Pratt, John C, . 


300 00 


Shailer, Wm. H., 


100 00 


Pike, Jonathan, . 


100 00 


Sears, E. G., 


100 00 


Palmer, Wm. H., 


100 00 


Smith, E. A. & H. W., 


100 00 






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NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 



Sharp, Daniel, . 


$50 00 


Warren, J. G., . 


$375 00 


Smith, S. F., 


50 00 


Warren, M. C, . 


300 00 


Smith, S. T., 


50 00 


White, Daniel W., . 


300 00 


Sears, Barnas, . 


50 00 


Wetherell, H. H., 


300 00 


Stearns, 0. S., 


50 00 


Washburn, H. S., 


300 00 


Seavey, Eben, 


50 00 


Wiswall, Samuel, 


150 00 


Smith, Lucius E., 


30 00 


Wyman, Abner P., 


180 00 


Stickney, Samuel, 


30 00 


Wyman, John P., 


150 00 


Stone, Josiah, 


25 00 


Wallis, Margaret, 


100 00 


Stow, B., for friend, . 


25 00 


Whiting, Martha, 


100 00 


Scott, J. E., 


25 00 


Wheeler, Jesse, . 


100 00 


Sargent, S. G., . 


25 00 


Whiting, Rufus W., . 


100 00 


Scott, Chas., 


10 00 


WiUard, F. A., . 


100 00 


Shailer, D. T., . 


375 00 


Whitney, Salmon, 


100 00 


Smith, Elbridge, 


100 00 


Wilson, F., . 


100 00 


Sherman, Wm. M., 


5 00 


Wiggin, P. L., 


100 00 


SaDford, M., 


25 00 


Williams, Rev. Mr., . 


100 00 


Tyler, D. S., . . 


1,000 00 


Wilson, Leonard, 


50 00 


Tiffany, Lyman, . 


1,000 00 


Waterhouse, J. W., . 


50 00 


Turner, H. E., . 


500 00 


Watriss, Wm., . 


50 00 


Thurber, Chas., . 


650 00 


White, L., . . . 


36 00 


Tufts, Otis, . 


300 00 


Witherbee, J. M., 


25 00 


Ticknor, Wm. D., 


25 00 


White, Eben, . 


10 00 


Teel, George S., . 


150 00 


Whiting, Christopher, 


20 00 


Tirrell, J., . 


100 00 


Wilcox, Wm. R., 


15 00 


Tripp, Susan, 


100 00 


Whitman, James, 


10 00 


Tainter, Daniel A., 


50 00 


Woodard, C, 


15 00 


Taylor, J. E., . 


50 00 


Wyman, Mary Ann, . 


1 00 


Tuck, S., . 


50 00 


Williams, N. M., . 


25 00 


True, Samuel, 


50 00 


Winn, D. D., 


50 00 


Torrey, M., . 


30 00 


Welch, S., . 


25 00 


Upton, James, . 


1,000 00 


Wakefield, E. W., 


25 00 


L T pham, Henry, . 


50 00 


Wyman, Mary, . 


25 00 


Vinal, Albert, 


500 00 


Wheelock, D., 


50 00 


Ward, Andrew, . 


1,000 00 


Complimentary R. R. tick- 




Wilson, E. C, . 


500 00 


ets to agents, in value, 


600 00 


Williams, J. M. S., . 
Woods, Alva, 


600 00 
500 00 






Total, . . . i 


£117,228 38 


Ward, J., . 


500 00 






Subscribers 


j to the Library Building Fund. 




Blake, F. D., 


$25 00 


Bray, Mellen, 


$25 00 


Blanchard, S. S., 


25 00 


Briggs. W. D., . 


25 00 


Bowdlear, W. A., 


50 00 


Brooks, Sam'l, . 


5 00 


Borden, Jefferson, 


300 00 


Brown, S. N., 


100 00 


Bolles, M., . 


200 00 


Butters, C. S., . 


100 00 


Boynton, N. ; . 


1,100 00 


Brooks, B. F., . . 


25 00 



FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



65 



Carpenter, Cyrus, 
Chase, H. S., 
Chipman, Geo. W., 
Colby, Gardner, . 
Colby, Gardner R., 
Clark, Caroline S., 
Converse, J. H., . 
Converse, J. W., 
Cummin gs, Geo., 
Dexter, Cbas. W., 
Dexter, Geo. S., . 
Daniels, Chas. E., 
Daniels, J. E., 
Davis, R. S., 
Eaton, W. H., . 
Edmond, Jas., . 
Edmands, Geo. D., 
Fitz, E. C, . 
Fuller, Robt. O., 
Fosdick, Wm., . 
Forbes, Gustavus, 
Gross, John A. D., 
Goodwin, Geo. C, 
Glover H. R., . 
Hill, S. P., . 
Haynes, A., 



$50 00 


1,025 00 


100 00 


11,000 00 


1,000 00 


500 00 


50 00 


400 00 


1,000 00 


500 00 


5,500 00 


50 00 


100 00 


40 00 


50 00 


50 00 


100 00 


400 00 


250 00 


50 00 


50 00 


200 00 


400 00 


200 00 


50 00 


25 00 



Holman, Jobn, . 


$75 00 


Heath, Wm., 


25 00 


Jacobs, H., . 


50 00 


Kendall, Chas. S., 


550 00 


Lincoln, Joshua, 


100 00 


Lamson, A. D., . 


50 00 


Lawton, Geo., 


1,500 00 


Mann, N. P., 


100 00 


Merrill, J. Warren, . 


6,000 00 


Nickerson, Thomas, . 


1,250 00 


Pratt, John C, . 


100 00 


Parker, T. W., . 


50 00 


Pevear Bros., 


1,000 00 


Read, F. O., 


25 00 


Richardson, Thos., 


100 00 


Richardson, W. T., . 


100 00 


Stinison, A. G., . 


100 00 


Story, Joseph, . 


75 00 


Upton, James, . 


700 00 


Wilson, E. C, . 


500 00 


Warren, M. C, . 


50 00 


Wentworth, , 


25 00 


Warren, J. G., . 


500 00 


Williams, J. M. S., . 


1,000 00 



$39,145 00 



Subscribers to the $200,000 Endowment Fund. 



Aldrich, Albert M., . 


$1,000 00 


Butterfield, Stephen, 


$30 00 


Ames, R. W., 


500 00 


Byam, C. F., 


10 00 


Abbott, Mrs. Ruth, . 


50 00 


Byara, E. G., 


200 00 


Brown, C. H., 


50 00 


Borden, Jefferson, 


200 00 


Butler, Chas. S., 


. 1,000 00 


Buttrick, John, . 


300 00 


Brooks, B. F., . 


350 00 


Blanchard, S. S., 


100 00 


Bowdlear, S. G., 


100 00 


Beard, Wm. A., . 


100 00 


Boyden, Addison, 


500 00 


Beals, William, . 


25 00 


Bowdlear, Wm. A., . 


300 00 


Burt, Augustine, 


25 00 


Brown, S. N., Jr., 


360 00 


Bard well, J. B., . 


100 00 


Badger, Erastus B., . 


200 00 


Barker, A. J., 


100 00 


Benton, A. W., . 


1,000 00 


Bemis, Edward, . 


50 00 


Brooks, Geo., 


600 00 


Blodgett, Wm. A., 


100 00 


Bogman, Geo. E., 


200 00 


Brooks, Rufus F., 


72 00 


Barnes, Lawrence, 


10,000 00 


Brown, Newell, . . < 


60 00 


"Bap. Ch., Old Cambridge 


258 30 


Brooks, Mrs. Mary A., 


8 00 


" " Cambridgeport, 


262 00 


Butler, H. V., . 


5 00 


Blanchard, Wm., 


50 00 


Bowdlear,W. A., for friend 


, 1 00 


Blake Ezekiel, . 


1,000 00 


Bolles, Matthew, 


. 1,000 00 



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NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 



Colby, Lewis, 


$5,000 00 


Chase, H. S., 


5,000 00 


Cole, B. E., 


300 00 


Cunningham, Lucy S., 


500 00 


Converse, B. B., . 


100 00 


Carr, John, . . . 


100 00 


Capen, Edw. W., 


300 00 


Carpenter, Cyrus, 


. 1,000 00 


Chase, H. Lincoln, . 


1,200 00 


Coolidge D. S., . 


■100 00 


Corey, Mrs. Elijah, . 


50 00 


Carnes, Geo. W., 


25 00 


Colhy, Jos. L., . 


100 00 


Colby, Chas. L., 


300 00 


Capen, Ezekiel, . 


100 00 


Coolidge, Mrs. Mary S., 


25 00 


Coolidge, Josiah, 


1,000 00 


Clapp, G. W., . 


300 00 


Cook, Josiah W., 


100 00 


Colhy, Gardner, . 


18,000 00 


Clarke, Wm. N., 


300 00 


Colburn, E., . 


100 00 


Chester, D wight, 


100 00 


Crosby, David, . 


15 00 


Cross, H. Jane, . 


6 00 


Chase, Walter, . 


25 00 


Cummings, Geo., 


5,000 00 


Chase, J. G., 


150 00 


Cook, Mary E., . 


500 00 


Coolidge, John, . 


300 00 


Conant, F. F., . 


100 00 


Clark, W. N., for boy, 


1 00 


Duncklee, B. W., 


70 00 


Davis, Sam'l C, . 


10,000 00 


Dexter, Chas. W., 


1,000 00 


Davis, Robert S., 


25 00 


Dorr, Cornelius, . 


100 00 


Daniels, Chas. E., 


50 00 


Duncan, Mary W., 


1,000 00 


Dexter, Geo. S., . . 


6,000 00 


Dexter, Mrs. Geo. B., 


100 00 


Daggett, C. K. ; . . 


12 00 


Daniels, S. V. R., 


100 00 


Dizer, M. C, 


100 00 


Davis, Isaac, 


3,000 00 


Eaton, Nathaniel L., . 


100 00 


Edmond, James, 


1,500 00 


Edmands, George D., 


5,000 00 



Evans, T. C, . . 
Edmond, Miss Helen, 
Edmond, Miss Emma, 
Eaton, W. H., . 
Earle, E. B., 
Earle, J. H., 
Friend, by J. W. M., 
Ford, D. S., 
Freuch, Miss Ellen, 
Fuller, Levi K., . 
Fuller, Robert O., 
Friend, per J. W. Converse 
Fitz, E. C, . 
Forbes, Gustavus, 
Friend, per D. F. Lam 

son, . 
Francis, Jas., 
Friend of J. C. Hartshorn 
Gonld, Thomas, . 
Gordon, A. J., 
Griggs, Thomas, 
Goodnow, Joseph, 
Glover, Henry R., 
Gross, John A. D., 
Gould, Ezra P., . 
Gardner, G. W., . 
Greenleaf, O. H., 
Green, Augustus A., 
Green, Mrs. A. A., 
Gilkey, Royal, . 
Goodwin, Mrs. H. B., 
Hibbard, S. P., . 
Hart, Nath. O., . 
Hawes, Richard A., 
Holman, John, . 
Holmes, Joseph A., 
Holmes, Frank M., 
Hayward, D. H., 
Hill, S. P., . 
Howard, Gen. O. O., 
Hovey, Alvah, . 
Hough, Geo. T., . 
Hatch, Geo. C, . 
Hewins, L. G., . 
Homer, Geo., 
Hartwell, J. B., . 
Hartshorn, J. C, 
Holbrook, C. F., . 



$1,200 00 

50 00 

50 00 

500 00 

60 00 

60 00 

300 00 

200 00 

100 00 

120 00 

5,500 00 

1,000 00 

1,000 00 

500 00 

500 00 

100 00 

100 00 

50 00 

100 00 

1,550 00 

2,000 00 

1,200 00 

1,000 00 

200 00 

30 00 

5,000 00 

200 00 

100 00 

500 00 

1,200 00 

150 00 

1,000 00 

200 00 

800 00 

500 00 

120 00 

300 00 

500 00 

250 00 

300 00 

50 00 

50 00 

50 00 

30 00 

1,200 00 

1,200 00 

25 00 



FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



67 



Hawes, Saml. C, 


. $500 00 


Jacobs, Hirain, . 


200 00 


Johnson, Geo. L., 


3,000 00 


Jackson, C. E., . 


200 00 


Jackson, Mrs. Antipas, 


5 00 


Kendall, Chas. S., 


2,000 00 


King, H. M., 


300 00 


Kirby, Clias. K., 


1,000 00 


Kingsley, Chester W., 


600 00 


Kelso, Jona. G., . 


60 00 


Keese, Levi, 


i 300 00 


Knowles, Thomas, 


20 00 


Kimball, Wales, . 


30 00 


Lincoln Joshua, . 


300 00 


Little, G. W., . 


200 00 


Lamson, Wm., . 


250 00 


Lincoln, H. B. 3 . 


60 00 


Lawton, George, 


5,000 00 


Lincoln, Heman, 


300 00 


Learnard Geo. E., 


120 00 


Mann, N. P., Jr., 


1,500 00 


Mann, N. P., 


500 00 


Merrill, J. Warren 


18,000 00 


Merrill, T. Watson, per J 




W. M., . 


12 70 


Merrill, H. B., per J. W. M. 


30 00 


Mitchell, S. P., . 


250 00 


Merrick, Timothy, 


1,000 00 


Manning, J. B., . 


200 00 


Munroe, James, . 


100 00 


March, Delano, . 


250 00 


March, Geo. N., . 


250 00 


Newton, John F., 


150 00 


Nickerson, Thomas, . 


6,000 00 


Noyes, Samuel, . 


300 00 


Nbyes, Mrs. Mary, 


100 00 


Olmstead, J. W., 


1,200 00 


Parker, J. G., 


25 00 


Perkins, S. S., . 


500 00 


Putnam, John, . 


100 00 


Pond, Moses W., 


600 00 


Perkins, Jos. J., . 


200 00 


Paine, J. S., . 


500 00 


Parsons, Solomon, 


100 00 


Pratt, John C, . 


500 00 


Paine, Sarah A., . 


1 00 


Pevear, G. K. & H. A., . 


6,000 00 


Parkhurst, J. W., 


300 00 



Potter, Mrs. Elizabeth D., 
Pope, Mrs. Wm. G. E., 
Peabody, Alfred, 
Penniman, Dea., 
Priest, D. H., 
Reed, F. O., 
Reed, Jos. W., . 
Richmond, Geo. B., 
Randall, David, . 
Richardson, Jas. M., 
Story, Joseph, . 
Stevens, Jos. C, 
Spooner, Hon. W. B., 
Spoouer, Mrs. L. H., 
Shed, J. G., . 
Stackpole, R. M., 
Smith, Franklin W., 
Sawyer, Joseph, 
Stimson, A. G., . 
Seaverns, Thos., . 
Swaim, Mrs. A. D., 
Sands, Albert J., 
Shawmut Ave. Bap. Ch. ; 
Seaverns, Geo. W., 
Snow, S. B., 
Sanger, Warren, 
Sawin, S. D., 
Sargent, Prentice, 
Seymour, Friend, 
Sturtevant, B. F., 
Sanborn, John H., 
Stearns, O. S., 
Sanborn, Geo. O., 
Stearns, Dan'l, . 
Slater, H. N., . 
Stevens, Mrs. E. C. 
Small, Mrs., 
Safcord, Mrs. H., 
Taylor Simeon, . 
Taylor, Mrs. N. M., 
Tingley, T. C, . 
Tappan, Lewis, N., 
Toles, R. G., 
Tucker, Aaron E., 
Tiffany Lyman, . 
Thing, Sam'l B., 
Teele, J. W., 
Teele, Samuel, . 



$300 00 
150 00 

2,000 00 

100 00 

60 00 

500 00 

30 00 

50 00 

500 00 

100 00 

100 00 

750 00 

500 00 

500 00 

200 00 

150 00 

120 00 

1,000 00 
300 00 
120 00 

1,000 00 
30 00 

3,000 00 
100 00 
50 00 
160 00 
150 00 
100 00 
75 00 

2,200 00 
500 00 
300 00 
120 00 
150 00 

1,000 00 

200 00 

5 00 

100 00 

100 00 

100 00 

10 00 

100 00 

100 00 

50 00 

1,000 00 

600 00 

100 00 

10 00 



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Tucker, Thos. W., 


$120 00 


Thomas, Mrs. Sylvanus, 


50 00 


Tinkham, H. N., 


500 00 


Tainter, D. A., . 


25 00 


Upton, James, . 


3,000 00 


Yiall, Chas. A., . 


100 00 


Vinal, Albert, 


1,000 00 


Wilbur, Asa, 


100 00 


Wood, Mrs. M. W., . 


500 00 


Woodworth, A. S., . 


500 00 


Wheeler, G. W., . 


25 00 


Warren, M. E., . 


300 00 


Waters, Mrs. Annie E., 


2,000 00 


Whittier, A. S., . 


5 00 


Webber, Mrs..S. T. Gridley, 


125 00 


Wade, Francis W., . 


100 00 


Weld, Miss Susan, 


100 00 



Weld, Nathaniel, 
Weld, John, 
Witherbee, J. B., 
Weld, Eben, 
Warren, A. T., . 
White, Jos. M., . 
Winn, Dan'l D., . 
Wilson, Mrs. Clarissa, 
Woods, Alya, 
Whipple, Mrs. Arnold, 
Wilcox, Chas. F., 
White, B. L., 
White, L. L., 
Walker, Jos. H., 
Wellington, Catherine, 



$100 00 

100 00 

75 00 

5 00 

120 00 

100 00 

100 00 

1,000 00 

3,000 00 

50 00 

40 00 

50 00 

5 00 

6,000 00 

300 00 

$211,404 00 



SCHOLARSHIPS. Q$ 



[B.] 

SCHOLAESHIPS. 

The following resolutions were adopted by the Trustees of Newton Theo- 
logical Institution, April 21, 1830 : — 

" Resolved, That scholarships he established for the support of students, as 
soon as funds can be obtained for that purpose. 

"Resolved, That such scholarships consist of not less than $1,000 each, which 
shall be invested in some productive stock, and the interest only" shall be 
applied to the support of students." 

The " Knowles Scholarship" was founded January 1, 1830, Jby the "Boston 
Young Men's Baptist Education Society." Present amount, $1,720. 

The " Read Scholarship " was founded April 28, 1845, by James H. Bead, 
Providence, E. I. Present amount, $2,285. 

The " Ripley Fund," practically a half scholarship, was originated July 6, 
1852, by the will of Mrs. Abigail Eipley. Present amount, $500. 

The " Isaac Davis Scholarship " was founded January 20, 18b*6, by Hon. 
Isaac Davis, Worcester, Mass., for the benefit of students who engage to 
preach, as a rule, without the use of a manuscript. Present amount, $1,000. 

The " Susan Tripp Scholarship " was founded by a bequest of Mrs. Susan 
Teipp, New Bedford, Mass., received February 20, 1866. Present amount, 
$1,000. 

The " Mrs. Watts' Scholarships " were founded by Mrs. Annie E. Waters, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. (included in the Additional Endowment Fund of $200,000), 
paid 1871 and 1872. Amount, $2,000. 

The " Swaim Scholarship " was founded by Mrs. Aurora D. Swaim, Cam- 
bridgeport, Mass., in memory of her late husband, Eev. Samuel D. Swaim, 
D. D., paid in 1871, 72, '73. Amount, $1,000 (taken from the Additional 
Endowment Fund). 

The " Betsey Hamlin Scholarship " was founded, 1873, by Mrs. Carollne H. 
Eossiter, Great Barrington, Mass., in memory of her mother, Mrs. Betsey 
Hamlin. Amount, $1,000. 

The "Potter Scholarship" was founded by Mrs. Elizabeth D. Potter, 
New Bedford, Mass., in memory of her late daughter, Deborah N. Potter, 
paid 1871, '72, '73. Amount, $300 (taken from the Additional Endowment 
Fund). 

This last is of course only part of a scholarship, though used for the 
benefit of students like a full scholarship. It should perhaps be called the 
" Potter Fund." 






70 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

Since the preceding address was delivered another scholarship has been 
pledged by a friend. 

Besides the scholarships just mentioned, the Institution has the following 
trust funds, viz. : — 

The " Fenelly Fund," created by the will of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Gurney, 
October, 1856, being an estate at the corner of Salem and Prince streets, 
valued at $8,000 ; one-half the income of which goes to the general purposes 
of the Institution, the other half goes to the Fatherless and Widows Society. 

The " Isaac Davis Library Fund," established by the Hon. Isaac Davis, of 
Worcester, Mass., June 3, 1868, " the annual income to be applied to the pur- 
chase of books relating to the history of Baptists." Amount, $500. 

The " Alva Woods Elocution Fund," established by the Eev. Alva Woods, 
D. D., of Providence, R. L, July, 1868, " the income to be appropriated 
toward paying for the services of a teacher of elocution for the students of 
the Institution." Amount, $5,000. 

The legal name of the seminary is Newton Theological Institution, 
and in gifts or bequests it should be so designated. 



[C] 

A fortnight, more or less, before the time for completing this subscription 
expired, a meeting of the subscribers was held in Tremont Temple, Boston, 
at which Dr. Eaton stated that he had secured pledges to the amount of 
about $177,500, but could not obtain the required sum, $200,000. Thereupon 
Gardner Colby and J. Warren Merrill were appointed a committee to 
raise the subscription to $210,000. The time for doing this was short, and it 
is rumored that there was some pretty bold and fast driving through the 
streets of Boston for a few days, with two fine-looking gentlemen, in middle 
life, intent on business, in the carriage. At any rate, the task proposed was 
accomplished. 



SEMI-CENTENNIAL POEM. 71 



CD.] 
NEWTON'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL 

BY REV. S. F. SMITH, D. D. 

'Tis fifty years — and reverend men 
Have gathered on this sacred liill 

To tell — as young life thrills again — 
Who sleep in death, who linger still. 

'Tis fifty years — the arching skies, 
The distant peaks, the leafy grove, — 

O'er all, the summer beauty lies : 
Peace breathes around, and peace above. 

'Tis fifty years — the men, whose deeds 
In reverent trust their children keep ; 

No praise their noble labor needs : 

God took them all, — in Christ they sleep. 

'Tis fifty years — the names we knew, 

Clustered with thronging memories, wake, 

Fragrant as blossoms pearled with dew, 
Dear for their own, for Zion's sake. 

'Tis fifty years — the aged form 
Of Grafton rests beneath the sod ; 

Life's ocean crossed, and hushed life's storm,- 
Safe in the Paradise of God. 

'Tis fifty years — the men revered, 
Who blessed the infant's natal hour, 

Ripened, are gone, but still endeared : 
We hail the fruit, — we miss the flower. 

'Tis fifty years — the priests of God, 
Who watched at sacred learning's shrine, — 

Champions of living truth, they stood ; 
Translated, like the stars they shine. 

'Tis fifty years — our loving eyes 

Life's roll and death's memorials trace; 

Resting in hope, what form here lies ? 
The patient, trusting, faithful Chase. 



72 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 

Mature in grace, and full of days, 

Crowned with fresh laurels, Ripley sleeps ; 

Love's golden fingers weave his praise, 
Peace her fond watch around him keeps. 

'Tis fifty years — what battles gained • 
We trace, hill of God, to thee! 

What souls for heavenly glory trained ! 
What songs of joy and victory ! 

'Tis fifty years — new harvests wait, 
Where earlier reapers toiled and fell ; 

And many a sickle waits, and craves 
New and brave hands to wield it well. 

As when on battle's gory field 

The strong give way, the mighty fall, 

New and brave hands their strength shall yield, 
New and brave hearts shall heed the call. 

'Tis fifty years — we rear to-day — 
Not in the strength which nature boasts — 

A new memorial-stone, and say, 
Our helper is the Lord of hosts. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS 



DELIVERED AT THE 



FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 



NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION, 



June 8, 1875. 



By ALVAH HOTEY, D.D., 

President, and Professor of Theology. 



BOSTON : 

WRIGHT &. POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, 

79 Milk Street (corner of Federal). 

1875. 



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